The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 64
Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Abu Nowas, and he was a great favourite with the Sultan of the country, who had a palace in the same town where Abu Nowas dwelt.
Who acts: name, man, country, Abu · What happens: live, be, have, dwell, name · To what, where: man, Abu, great favourite, palace, same town
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, man, country, Abu), 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 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Abu | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Abu | cop |
| 12 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 man | appos |
| 13 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Abu | flat |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 favourite | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 favourite | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 favourite | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 favourite | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 favourite | det |
| 19 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 favourite | amod |
| 20 | favourite | favourite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 Sultan | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sultan | det |
| 23 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 favourite | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Sultan | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 had | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 country | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 palace | det |
| 31 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 had | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 town | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 town | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 town | amod |
| 35 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 palace | nmod |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 dwelt | advmod |
| 37 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 dwelt | nsubj |
| 38 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Abu | flat |
| 39 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 town | acl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | 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 | is a | past | Abu's name | Abu | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | man | a great favourite | with the Sultan of the country | tree rules | |||
| 4 | have | past | the country | a palace | the same town | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Patient | |||
| 5 | dwell | past | Abu | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | name | Abu | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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