The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 51
Once upon a time, in the very middle of the middle of a large kingdom, there was a town, and in the town a palace, and in the palace a king.
What happens: be · To what, where: town palace
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 was | 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 middle | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 middle | advmod |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 kingdom | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 kingdom | amod |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 palace | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 town | det |
| 21 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 palace | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 town | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 town | det |
| 26 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | compound |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 palace | det |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 palace | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 palace | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | conj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 king | det |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 palace | appos |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 palace | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a town palace and the palace | 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: «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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