The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 125

Once upon a time an old woman lived in a small cottage near the sea with her two daughters.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: live · To what, where: small cottage

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 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	8 lived	obl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 woman	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 woman	amod
7	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cottage	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cottage	amod
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 daughters	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughters	nmod:poss
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 daughters	nummod
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lived	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a old woman			a small cottage	time	near the sea; with woman's two daughters; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=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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