The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 46

At the foot of some high mountains there was, once upon a time, a small village, and a little way off two roads met, one of them going to the east and the other to the west.

Who acts: two roads · What happens: be, meet, go · To what, where: small village, little way, east

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two roads), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 foot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 foot	det
3	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 mountains	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 mountains	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mountains	amod
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 foot	nmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 village	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 once	punct
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 was	advmod
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 time	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 time	det
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 once	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 village	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 village	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 village	amod
18	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 one	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 way	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 way	amod
23	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	nsubj
24	off	off	ADV	_	25 two	advmod
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 roads	nummod
26	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 met	nsubj
27	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 way	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 village	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 one	nmod
32	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 one	advcl
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 east	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 east	det
35	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 going	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 other	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 other	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 going	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 west	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 west	det
41	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 other	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 village	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past		a small village		tree rules
2	meet	past	two roads	a little way not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent
3	go	gerund			the east	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to east=Initial_Location

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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