The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 42
In a small hut, right in the middle of the forest, lived a man, his wife, three sons and a daughter.
What happens: live · To what, where: man, small hut
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 hut | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hut | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hut | amod |
| 4 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 middle | punct |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 9 middle | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hut | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 forest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 forest | det |
| 12 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hut | punct |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sons | punct |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sons | nummod |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 man | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 daughter | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 daughter | det |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 man | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man and man's wife and three sons and a daughter | a small hut | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=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 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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