The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 60
There was once a crab who lived in a hole on the shady side of a mountain.
Who acts: crab · What happens: be, live · To what, where: hole
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 crab | det |
| 5 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crab | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hole | det |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 side | det |
| 13 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 side | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a crab | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a crab | a hole | on the shady side of a mountain | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location |
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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