The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 35

Far way, in a very hot country, there once lived a man and woman who had two children, a son named Koane and a daughter called Thakane.

Who acts: woman · What happens: live, have, name, call · To what, where: way, two children, son, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 way	advmod
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 country	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 country	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 hot	advmod
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 country	amod
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 way	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 lived	expl
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 lived	advmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 woman	cc
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woman	acl:relcl
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 children	nummod
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 son	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	conj
24	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 son	acl
25	Koane	Koane	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 named	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 daughter	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 daughter	det
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 man	conj
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 daughter	acl
30	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		way and a hot country	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	woman	two children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	name	participle		a son not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	call	participle		a daughter not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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