The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 75
Once upon a time there lived an old man who dwelt with his son in a small hut on the edge of the plain.
Who acts: old man · What happens: live, dwell · To what, where: old man, small hut
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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 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 | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 dwelt | nsubj |
| 11 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hut | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hut | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hut | amod |
| 18 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 edge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 edge | det |
| 21 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dwelt | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 plain | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 plain | det |
| 24 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 edge | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old man | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | dwell | past | a old man | a small hut | with man's son; on the edge of the plain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location |
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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