The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 37
Once upon a time, at the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambesi, was born a child.
What happens: bear · To what, where: child
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | 19 born | 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 | 19 born | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 town | punct |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Senna | case |
| 10 | Senna | Senna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 town | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 banks | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 banks | det |
| 13 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 town | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Zambesi | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Zambesi | det |
| 16 | Zambesi | Zambesi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 banks | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 child | det |
| 21 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a child | time | once property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: child=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/1/37/