The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 82
The debtor proved to be an old miser, who lived at the other end of the village.
Who acts: debtor, old miser · What happens: prove, be, live · To what, where: old miser, other end
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (debtor, old miser), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 debtor | det |
| 2 | debtor | debtor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | nsubj |
| 3 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 miser | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 miser | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 miser | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 miser | amod |
| 8 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proved | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 miser | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 end | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 end | amod |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 village | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 village | det |
| 18 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | past | the debtor | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the debtor not said here | a old miser | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | a old miser | at the other end of the village | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at end=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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