The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 92
Now there dwelt, not far from the palace, an old man who had three sons.
Who acts: old man · What happens: dwell, have · To what, where: palace, three sons
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 dwelt | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dwelt | advmod |
| 3 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 palace | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 palace | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dwelt | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | appos |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 sons | nummod |
| 17 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | participle | the palace | there | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme palace=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a old man | three sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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