The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 70

Far away in a hot country, where the forests are very thick and dark, and the rivers very swift and strong, there once lived a strange pair of friends.

Who acts: forests, rivers · What happens: be, live · To what, where: strange pair

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forests, rivers), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	27 lived	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 country	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 country	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 country	amod
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 away	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thick	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 thick	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forests	det
10	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thick	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thick	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 thick	advmod
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 country	amod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dark	cc
15	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thick	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swift	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 swift	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rivers	det
19	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 swift	nsubj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 swift	advmod
21	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 thick	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 strong	cc
23	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 swift	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 away	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 lived	expl
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 lived	advmod
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 pair	det
29	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 pair	amod
30	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 friends	case
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 pair	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the forests			thick property	tree rules
2	be		the forests not said here				tree rules
3	be		the rivers				tree rules
4	live	past		a strange pair of friends	there	away, once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme pair=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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