The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 70
Once upon a time there was a goldsmith who lived in a certain village where the people were as bad and greedy, and covetous, as they could possibly be; however, in spite of his surroundings, he was fat and prosperous.
Who acts: goldsmith, people · What happens: be, live, spite · To what, where: certain village, spite, surroundings
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmith, people), 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 | 6 was | 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goldsmith | det |
| 8 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 goldsmith | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 village | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 village | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 village | amod |
| 14 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 bad | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 people | det |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bad | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 bad | cop |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 bad | case |
| 20 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 village | advcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 greedy | cc |
| 22 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bad | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 covetous | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 covetous | cc |
| 25 | covetous | covetous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bad | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 be | punct |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 be | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 be | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 be | aux |
| 30 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 31 be | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 covetous | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 fat | punct |
| 33 | however | however | ADV | _ | 43 fat | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 however | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 spite | case |
| 36 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 fat | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 surroundings | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 39 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 36 spite | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 spite | punct |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 fat | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 fat | cop |
| 43 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 was | parataxis |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 prosperous | cc |
| 45 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 fat | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a goldsmith | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a goldsmith | a certain village | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the people | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | the people not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | can | could | people | possibly property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | Goldsmith | spite of Goldsmith's surroundings | fat, however property | tree rules | |||
| 8 | be | Goldsmith not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | spite | Goldsmith's surroundings | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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