The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 20
Once upon a time there lived a man who dwelt with his wife in a little hut, far away from any neighbours.
Who acts: man · What happens: live, dwell · To what, where: man, little hut
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 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 | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 dwelt | nsubj |
| 10 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wife | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 away | punct |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 dwelt | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 neighbours | case |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 neighbours | det |
| 23 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 away | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | dwell | past | a man | a little hut | with Poestion's wife; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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