Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 1
Many years ago there lived in Eng-land a wise and good king whose name was Al-fred.
What happens: live, fr · To what, where: Eng land, wise king
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 7 | Eng | Eng | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 land | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Eng | punct |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 11 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 king | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wise | conj |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fred | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 name | nmod:poss |
| 16 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fred | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fred | aux:pass |
| 18 | Al | Al | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 fred | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Al | punct |
| 20 | fred | fr | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lived | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Eng land; there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location | ||||
| 2 | fr | past · passive | a wise king | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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