The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 39

Far, far away, beyond all sorts of countries, seas and rivers, there stood a splendid city where lived King Archidej, who was as good as he was rich and handsome.

Who acts: King Archidej, Archidej · What happens: stand, live, be, sort · To what, where: splendid city, sorts, King Archidej, countries

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King Archidej, Archidej), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 away	advmod
4	away	away	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 away	punct
6	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	8 sorts	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sorts	det
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 countries	case
10	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sorts	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seas	punct
12	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 countries	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 rivers	cc
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 countries	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sorts	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 stood	expl
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 city	det
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 city	amod
20	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obj
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 lived	advmod
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 city	acl:relcl
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Archidej	compound
24	Archidej	Archidej	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 lived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 good	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 good	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 good	cop
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 good	advmod
29	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Archidej	amod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 rich	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rich	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rich	cop
33	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 good	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 handsome	cc
35	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rich	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past		a splendid city	all sorts of countries and seas and rivers; there	away property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme beyond sort=Destination
2	live	past		King Archidej			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	King Archidej			good property	tree rules
4	is	past	Archidej			rich property	tree rules
5	be		Archidej not said here				tree rules
6	sort			countries and seas and rivers			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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