The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 65
Several hundreds of years ago there lived in a forest a wood-cutter and his wife and children.
Who acts: Several hundreds · What happens: live · To what, where: wood cutter, forest
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 (Several hundreds), 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 | Several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hundreds | amod |
| 2 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hundreds | nmod |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 there | advmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cutter | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cutter | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 wood | punct |
| 14 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wife | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cutter | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 children | cc |
| 19 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wife | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Several hundreds of years | a wood cutter and Lapplandische's wife and children | a forest; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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