The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 68
Once upon a time, in a savage country where the snow lies deep for many months in the year, there lived an owl and an eagle.
Who acts: snow · What happens: lie, live · To what, where: owl
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snow), 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 | 23 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 country | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 country | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 country | det |
| 8 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 country | compound |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | appos |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lies | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 snow | det |
| 12 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | nsubj |
| 13 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 country | acl:relcl |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 13 lies | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 months | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 months | amod |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lies | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 year | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 year | det |
| 20 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lies | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 lived | expl |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 owl | det |
| 25 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 eagle | cc |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 eagle | det |
| 28 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 owl | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | the snow | month; year | deep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | a owl and a eagle | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme owl=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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