The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 27

In a tiny cottage near the king’s palace there once lived an old man, his wife, and his son, a very lazy fellow, who would never do a stroke of work.

Who acts: son · What happens: live, not do, stroke · To what, where: old man, tiny cottage, stroke, work

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 cottage	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cottage	det
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cottage	amod
4	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
5	near	near	ADP	_	9 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 palace	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cottage	nmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 palace	advmod
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wife	punct
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wife	nmod:poss
18	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 do	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fellow	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fellow	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 lazy	advmod
26	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fellow	amod
27	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 do	punct
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 do	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 do	aux
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 do	advmod
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lived	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stroke	det
34	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 work	case
36	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stroke	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old man and king's wife	a tiny cottage near the king's palace	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	not do	would	king's son	a stroke of work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stroke=Eventuality
3	stroke			work			nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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