The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"], sentence 173
In days long past there lived a poor woodcutter who found life very hard.
Who acts: days, poor woodcutter · What happens: live, find · To what, where: poor woodcutter, life
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Upon Earth"]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, poor woodcutter), 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 | _ | 2 days | case |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 days | amod |
| 4 | past | past | ADP | _ | 5 there | case |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 long | obl |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woodcutter | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woodcutter | amod |
| 9 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 woodcutter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 hard | advmod |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 found | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | days | a poor woodcutter | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woodcutter=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | past | a poor woodcutter | life | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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