The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 94
Once upon a time there lived an old man and his wife in a dirty, tumble-down cottage, not very far from the splendid palace where the king and queen dwelt.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, dwell · To what, where: old man, dirty down cottage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wife | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cottage | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cottage | det |
| 15 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cottage | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dirty | punct |
| 17 | tumble | tumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 down | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 tumble | punct |
| 19 | down | down | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cottage | amod |
| 20 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 palace | advmod |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 far | advmod |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 27 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 palace | amod |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cottage | conj |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 dwelt | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 king | det |
| 31 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dwelt | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 queen | cc |
| 33 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 king | conj |
| 34 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 palace | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old man and man's wife | a dirty down cottage and the splendid palace; there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | dwell | past | the king and queen | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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