The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 12
Far, far away, in the midst of a pine forest, there lived a woman who had both a daughter and a stepdaughter.
Who acts: woman · What happens: live, have · To what, where: woman, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 | 3 far | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Far | punct |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 lived | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 midst | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 midst | det |
| 8 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 far | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 11 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forest | compound |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 midst | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 lived | expl |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 woman | acl:relcl |
| 20 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 22 daughter | cc:preconj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 daughter | det |
| 22 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stepdaughter | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stepdaughter | det |
| 25 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 daughter | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a woman | there | far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a woman | a daughter and a stepdaughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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.
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