The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 53

There dwelt a knight in Grianaig of the land of the West, who had three daughters, and for goodness and beauty they had not their like in all the isles.

Who acts: knight, daughters · What happens: dwell, have · To what, where: knight, Grianaig, three daughters, isles

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knight, daughters), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 dwelt	expl
2	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 knight	det
4	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelt	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 Grianaig	case
6	Grianaig	Grianaig	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knight	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knight	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 West	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 West	det
12	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 land	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knight	conj
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 daughters	nummod
17	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 goodness	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 goodness	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 goodness	case
21	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dwelt	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 beauty	cc
23	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 goodness	conj
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 goodness	acl:relcl
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 isles	advmod
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 isles	nmod:poss
28	like	like	ADP	_	32 isles	case
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 isles	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 isles	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 isles	det
32	isles	isle	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	dwell	past		a knight of the land of the West	Grianaig; there	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme knight=Location
2	have	past	a knight of the land of the West	three daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	have	past	daughters = daughter	daughters's isles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent isle=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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