The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 126
A long time ago there lived a young prince whose favourite playfellow was the son of the gardener who lived in the grounds of the palace.
Who acts: young prince, gardener · What happens: live, be · To what, where: son, grounds
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, gardener), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 3 time | advmod |
| 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 | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nsubj |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 playfellow | nmod:poss |
| 11 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 playfellow | amod |
| 12 | playfellow | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 son | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gardener | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gardener | det |
| 18 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 lived | nsubj |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gardener | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 grounds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grounds | det |
| 23 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 lived | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 palace | det |
| 26 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grounds | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a young prince | the son | of the gardener | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | the gardener | the grounds of the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grounds=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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