The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 62

Here lived a kindly fairy called Adolzaide, who had often helped the kings of his race with her good advice, and to her he betook himself.

Who acts: Adolzaide, king · What happens: live, call, help, betake, race · To what, where: fairy, kings, king, Adolzaide · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Adolzaide, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 lived	advmod
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fairy	det
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	5 fairy	advmod
5	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fairy	acl
7	Adolzaide	Adolzaide	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 helped	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 helped	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 helped	aux
11	often	often	ADV	_	12 helped	advmod
12	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 Adolzaide	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kings	det
14	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 helped	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 race	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 race	nmod:poss
17	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kings	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 advice	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 advice	nmod:poss
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 advice	amod
21	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 race	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 betook	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 betook	cc
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 her	case
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 betook	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 betook	nsubj
27	betook	betake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lived	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 betook	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a fairy		here		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fairy=Location
2	call	participle		a fairy not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	past · perfect	Adolzaide		the kings of king's race with Adolzaide's good advice		often property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Beneficiary
4	betake	past	king	king	Adolzaide			tree rules
5	race		king				with Adolzaide's good advice	nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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