The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 63

Once upon a time there lived in Lapland a man who was so very strong and swift of foot that nobody in his native town of Vadso could come near him if they were running races in the summer evenings.

Who acts: man, swift, clothes · What happens: live, be, come, run · To what, where: man, Lapland, races

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, swift, clothes), 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	in	in	ADP	_	8 Lapland	case
8	Lapland	Lapland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 strong	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 strong	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 strong	advmod
15	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	acl:relcl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swift	cc
17	swift	swift	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strong	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 foot	case
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swift	nmod
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 come	nsubj
21	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	29 come	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 town	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 town	nmod:poss
24	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 town	amod
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 nobody	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Vadso	case
27	Vadso	Vadso	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 town	nmod
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 swift	acl:relcl
30	near	near	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 running	mark
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 running	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 running	aux
35	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 come	advcl
36	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 running	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 evenings	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 evenings	det
39	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 evenings	compound
40	evenings	evening	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 running	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	Lapland; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lapland=Location
2	is	past	a man				strong property	tree rules
3	come	could	swift of foot				near man	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near he=Location
4	run a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	clothes	races		evening		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory

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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