The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 108
A long way off, near the sea coast of the east of Africa, there dwelt, once upon a time, a man and his wife.
What happens: dwell · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 way | amod |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADV | _ | 3 way | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 coast | punct |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | compound |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 east | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 east | det |
| 12 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Africa | case |
| 14 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 east | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dwelt | punct |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 dwelt | advmod |
| 17 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 way | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 once | punct |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 dwelt | advmod |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 once | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dwelt | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wife | cc |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | participle | a man and man's wife | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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