The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 105

On one of the great moors over in Jutland, where trees won’t grow because the soil is so sandy and the wind so strong, there once lived a man and his wife, who had a little house and some sheep, and two sons who helped them to herd them.

Who acts: trees, soil, man, two sons · What happens: not grow, be, live, have, help, herd · To what, where: man, little house, trees

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees, soil, man, two sons), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 lived	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 moors	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moors	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 moors	amod
6	moors	moor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 Jutland	case
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Jutland	case
9	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 moors	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grow	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 grow	advmod
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grow	nsubj
13	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grow	aux
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 grow	advmod
15	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Jutland	conj
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 sandy	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 soil	det
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sandy	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 sandy	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 sandy	advmod
21	sandy	sandy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grow	advcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wind	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 wind	det
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sandy	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 strong	advmod
26	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 wind	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 lived	expl
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	30 lived	advmod
30	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lived	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 wife	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 man	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 man	acl:relcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 house	det
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 house	amod
41	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 sheep	cc
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 sheep	det
44	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 house	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 sons	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 sons	cc
47	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 sons	nummod
48	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lived	obl
49	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 helped	nsubj
50	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 sons	acl:relcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 helped	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 herd	mark
53	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 helped	xcomp
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 herd	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not grow	future	trees				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the soil			sandy property	tree rules
3	live	past		a man and man's wife	there	on one of the great moors over Jutland; two sons obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
4	have	past	a man and man's wife	a little house and some sheep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
5	help	past	two sons	trees = tree			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	herd	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	trees = tree			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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