The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 77

Once upon a time there lived a miller who was so rich that, when he was going to be married, he asked to the feast not only his own friends but also the wild animals who dwelt in the hills and woods round about.

Who acts: miller, way, wild animals · What happens: live, be, go, marry, ask, dwell · To what, where: miller, hills

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller, way, wild animals), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 miller	det
8	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 rich	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 rich	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 rich	advmod
12	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 miller	acl:relcl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 going	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 rich	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 married	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 married	aux:pass
21	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 going	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 feast	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feast	det
27	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 asked	obl
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 friends	advmod
29	only	only	ADV	_	32 friends	advmod
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friends	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 friends	amod
32	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 asked	ccomp
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 animals	cc
34	also	also	ADV	_	37 animals	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 animals	det
36	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 animals	amod
37	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 friends	conj
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 dwelt	nsubj
39	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 animals	acl:relcl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 hills	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hills	det
42	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 dwelt	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 woods	cc
44	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 hills	conj
45	round	round	ADV	_	39 dwelt	advmod
46	about	about	ADV	_	39 dwelt	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a miller	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme miller=Location
2	is	past	a miller				rich property	tree rules
3	go	past · progressive	way					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	marry	to-infinitive · passive	way not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
5	ask speech: ask	past	way				to the feast	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	dwell	past	the wild animals		the hills and woods		about, round property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hill=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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