The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 162
Once upon a time two young men living in a small village fell in love with the same girl.
Who acts: two young men · What happens: live, fall · To what, where: small village, love
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young men), 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 | 13 fell | 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 8 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 men | acl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 village | amod |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 living | obl |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 girl | amod |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | two young men not said here | a small village | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | two young men | love | with the same girl; once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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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