The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 41

In a very cold country, far across the seas, where ice and snow cover the ground for many months in the year, there lived a little hare, who, as his father and mother were both dead, was brought up by his grandmother.

Who acts: ice, little hare, grandmother · What happens: cover, live, be, bring up · To what, where: ground, little hare, cold country

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ice, little hare, grandmother), 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	In	in	ADP	_	5 country	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 country	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 cold	advmod
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 country	amod
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seas	punct
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 seas	advmod
8	across	across	ADP	_	10 seas	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seas	det
10	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 country	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cover	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 cover	advmod
13	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cover	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 snow	cc
15	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ice	conj
16	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 seas	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cover	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 months	case
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 months	amod
21	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 cover	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 year	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cover	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 country	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 lived	expl
27	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 hare	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hare	amod
30	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lived	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dead	punct
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 dead	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 dead	punct
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 dead	mark
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 dead	nsubj
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 mother	cc
38	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 father	conj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 dead	cop
40	both	both	ADV	_	41 dead	advmod
41	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hare	acl:relcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 brought	punct
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 brought	aux:pass
44	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 lived	conj
45	up	up	ADP	_	44 brought	compound:prt
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 grandmother	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 grandmother	nmod:poss
48	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 brought	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	ice and snow	the ground		month; year		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Destination
2	live	past		a little hare	a cold country across the seas; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hare=Location
3	is	past	a little hare				both, dead property	tree rules
4	bring up	past · passive	Hare's grandmother					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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