The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 102
Right in the middle of Japan, high up among the mountains, an old man lived in his little house.
Who acts: middle · What happens: live · To what, where: little house
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle), 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 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 4 middle | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Japan | case |
| 6 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 middle | amod |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 high | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the middle of Japan | man's little house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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