The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 85

A long, long way off, right away in the west of America, there once lived an old man who had one son.

Who acts: old man · What happens: live, have · To what, where: long long way, one son

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obl:unmarked
6	off	off	ADV	_	5 way	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	6 off	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 west	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 west	det
12	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 away	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 America	case
14	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 west	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 lived	expl
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 lived	advmod
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 man	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 man	acl:relcl
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 son	nummod
25	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a long long way		there		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a old man	one son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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