The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 90

Once upon a time there lived a poor fisher who built a hut on the banks of a stream which, shunning the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns, flowed quietly past trees and under bushes, listening to the songs of the birds overhead.

Who acts: poor fisher, stream, towns, birds · What happens: live, build, shun, flow, listen, noise · To what, where: poor fisher, hut, banks, glare

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor fisher, stream, towns, birds), 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	9 fisher	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fisher	amod
9	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 built	nsubj
11	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fisher	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hut	det
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 built	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banks	det
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 built	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 banks	nmod
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 shunning	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shunning	punct
22	shunning	shun	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 stream	acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 glare	det
24	glare	glare	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shunning	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sun	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sun	det
27	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 glare	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 noise	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 noise	det
30	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sun	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 towns	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 towns	det
33	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 noise	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 flowed	punct
35	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
36	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	35 flowed	advmod
37	past	past	ADP	_	38 trees	case
38	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 flowed	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 bushes	cc
40	under	under	ADP	_	41 bushes	case
41	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 trees	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 listening	punct
43	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 flowed	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 songs	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 songs	det
46	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 listening	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 birds	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 birds	det
49	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 songs	nmod
50	overhead	overhead	ADV	_	43 listening	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor fisher	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fisher=Location
2	build	past	a poor fisher	a hut	the banks of a stream			vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hut=Theme on bank=Source
3	shun	gerund	a stream	the glare of the sun and the noise of the towns				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent glare=Location
4	flow	past					past trees and bushes; quietly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	listen	gerund					to the songs of the birds; overhead property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme
6	noise		the towns					nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent
7	sing		the birds					nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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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