The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 112
Once upon a time a little boy was born to a king who ruled over a great country through which ran a wide river.
Who acts: king, great country · What happens: bear, rule, run · To what, where: little boy, great country, wide river
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, great country), 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 | 9 born | 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 | 9 born | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 boy | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 boy | amod |
| 7 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 born | aux:pass |
| 9 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 born | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 ruled | nsubj |
| 14 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ruled | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 country | acl:relcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 river | amod |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · passive | a little boy | time | to a king; once property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | rule | past | a king | a great country | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run | past | a great country | a wide river | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory |
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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