The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 112

Once upon a time there lived a stone-cutter, who went every day to a great rock in the side of a big mountain and cut out slabs for gravestones or for houses.

Who acts: stone cutter · What happens: live, go, cut out · To what, where: stone cutter, side, slabs

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone cutter), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cutter	det
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cutter	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 stone	punct
10	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cutter	acl:relcl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 rock	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rock	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rock	amod
19	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mountain	amod
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 side	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 cut	cc
28	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 went	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 cut	compound:prt
30	slabs	slab	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 cut	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 gravestones	case
32	gravestones	gravestone	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 slabs	nmod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 houses	cc
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 houses	case
35	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gravestones	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a stone cutter	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cutter=Location
2	go	past	a stone cutter		the side of a big mountain	day	to a great rock	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
3	cut out	participle	a stone cutter not said here	slabs			for gravestones or houses	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector slab=Eventuality

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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