The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 4, sentence 56
Now there lived in a town a few miles off a soldier who had three sons, fine youths and strong, and the best players at shinny in that country.
Who acts: soldier · What happens: live, have · To what, where: few miles, town, three sons
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 (soldier), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 miles | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 miles | amod |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 soldier | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sons | nummod |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 youths | punct |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 youths | amod |
| 19 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sons | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sons | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 players | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 players | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 players | det |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 players | amod |
| 26 | players | player | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lived | obl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 shinny | case |
| 28 | shinny | shinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 players | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 country | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 country | det |
| 31 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 shinny | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a few miles | a town; there | now | off a soldier; the best players at shinny in that country obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | a soldier | three sons and fine youths | 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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