The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 8

Once upon a time there lived a king who was always at war with his neighbours, which was very strange, as he was a good and kind man, quite content with his own country, and not wanting to seize land belonging to other people.

Who acts: king, war, land · What happens: live, be, not want, seize, belong · To what, where: king, war, good man, land

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, war, land), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 war	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 war	cop
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	13 war	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 war	case
13	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 neighbours	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 neighbours	nmod:poss
16	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 war	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 strange	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 strange	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 strange	cop
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 strange	advmod
21	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 war	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 man	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 man	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 man	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 man	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 man	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 man	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 kind	cc
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 good	conj
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strange	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 content	punct
32	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	33 content	det:predet
33	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	nmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 country	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 country	nmod:poss
36	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 country	amod
37	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 content	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 wanting	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wanting	cc
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 wanting	advmod
41	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lived	advcl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 seize	mark
43	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 wanting	xcomp
44	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 seize	obj
45	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 land	acl
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 people	case
47	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 people	amod
48	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 belonging	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a king	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	is	past	a king		war		with king's neighbours; always property	tree rules
3	is	past	war				strange property	tree rules
4	is a	past	king	a good man			quite content with king's own country nmod	tree rules
5	not want	gerund						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive		land				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
7	belong	gerund	land not said here				to other people	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: 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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