The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 5

Somewhere or other, but I don’t know where, there lived a king who owned two remarkably fine fields of rape, but every night two of the rape heaps were burnt down in one of the fields.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: not know, live, own, burnt down · To what, where: king, two fine fields, night

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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	Somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 lived	advmod
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 other	cc
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Somewhere	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 know	cc
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Somewhere	conj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 know	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Somewhere	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 lived	expl
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 owned	nsubj
17	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 king	acl:relcl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 fields	nummod
19	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	_	20 fine	advmod
20	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fields	amod
21	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 owned	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 rape	case
23	rape	rape	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fields	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 burnt	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 burnt	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 night	det
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 burnt	nsubj:pass
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 night	flat
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 heaps	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 heaps	det
31	rape	rape	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heaps	compound
32	heaps	heap	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 night	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 burnt	aux:pass
34	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 lived	parataxis
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 burnt	compound:prt
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 one	case
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 burnt	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 fields	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 fields	det
40	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	live	past		a king	there	somewhere property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
3	own	past	a king	two fine fields of rape			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot field=Theme
4	burnt down	past · passive		every night of the rape heaps		in one of the fields	tree rules

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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