Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus, sentence 1
In a village there once lived two men who had the same name.
Who acts: two men · What happens: live, have · To what, where: two men, village, same name
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Claus and Big Claus. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two men), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 village | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 village | det |
| 3 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 village | advmod |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 men | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 name | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 name | amod |
| 13 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two men | a village | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | two men | the same name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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