The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 28
Once upon a time, in a very hot country, a man lived with his wife in a little hut, which was surrounded by grass and flowers.
Who acts: man, grass · What happens: live, surround · To what, where: little hut
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 (man, grass), 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 | 14 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 country | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 hot | advmod |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wife | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hut | amod |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 surrounded | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 25 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 hut | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 grass | case |
| 27 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 surrounded | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flowers | cc |
| 29 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 grass | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | a little hut | with man's wife; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location | |||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | grass and flowers | a little hut | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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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