Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 1

Once upon a time in a certain village there lived two neighbours; one was rich, very rich, and the other so poor that he had nothing in the world but a little hut, and that was tumbling about his ears.

Who acts: one, other, he, that · What happens: live, be, have, tumble · To what, where: two neighbours, nothing, world

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, other, he, that), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 village	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 village	det
7	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 village	amod
8	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 village	advmod
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 neighbours	nummod
12	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rich	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 rich	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 rich	cop
16	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lived	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rich	punct
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 rich	advmod
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rich	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 poor	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 poor	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 other	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 poor	nsubj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 poor	advmod
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rich	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 had	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 poor	advcl
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	28 had	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 world	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nothing	nmod
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 hut	cc
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 hut	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hut	amod
36	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 nothing	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tumbling	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tumbling	cc
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 tumbling	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 tumbling	aux
41	tumbling	tumble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 lived	advcl
42	about	about	ADP	_	44 ears	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 ears	nmod:poss
44	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 tumbling	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		two neighbours		time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme neighbour=Location
2	is	past	one				rich property	tree rules
3	be		one not said here					tree rules
4	be		the other					tree rules
5	have	past	he	nothing	the world			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	tumble	past · progressive	that				about his ears	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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