The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 57

Now there lived at Court an old woman who had been the prince’s nurse.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: live, be, nurse · To what, where: Court

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 Court	case
5	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl:agent
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 nurse	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 prince	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 prince	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 nurse	compound
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 prince	case
15	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 woman	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	participle		Court; there	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location
2	is	past · perfect				's the prince	tree rules
3	nurse		a old woman				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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