The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 63
Once upon a time there lived two peasants who had three daughters, and, as generally happens, the youngest was the most beautiful and the best tempered, and when her sisters wanted to go out she was always ready to stay at home and do their work.
Who acts: two peasants, youngest, best, sisters, Hábogi · What happens: live, have, happen, be, temper, want out · To what, where: two peasants, three daughters, home, work
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two peasants, youngest, best, sisters), 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 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 peasants | nummod |
| 8 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peasants | acl:relcl |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 daughters | nummod |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 beautiful | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 happens | mark |
| 17 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 18 happens | advmod |
| 18 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 happens | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 youngest | det |
| 21 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 beautiful | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beautiful | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 tempered | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 best | det |
| 28 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 tempered | nsubj |
| 29 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 beautiful | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 ready | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ready | cc |
| 32 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 35 wanted | mark |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 34 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 wanted | nsubj |
| 35 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 ready | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 go | mark |
| 37 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 wanted | xcomp |
| 38 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 wanted | advmod |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ready | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 ready | cop |
| 41 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 42 ready | advmod |
| 42 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lived | conj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 stay | mark |
| 44 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 ready | xcomp |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 home | case |
| 46 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 stay | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 do | cc |
| 48 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 stay | conj |
| 49 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 work | nmod:poss |
| 50 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 do | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | two peasants | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | two peasants | three daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | the youngest not said here | generally property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the youngest | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | temper | participle | the best | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | want out | past | Hábogi's sisters | out property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go out not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hábogi's sisters not said here | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | past | Hábogi | always, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | stay | to-infinitive | Hábogi not said here | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 10 | do | present | Hábogi not said here | sisters's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 11 | work | sisters = sister | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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