The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 84
Long, long ago, there lived a king who ruled over a country by the sea.
Who acts: king · What happens: live, rule · To what, where: king, country
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 lived | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | expl |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Long | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ruled | nsubj |
| 11 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 king | acl:relcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ruled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king | there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | rule | past | a king | a country | by the sea | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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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