The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 72

Far away on the other side of the world there lived, long ago, a lion and his younger brother, the wild cat, who were so fond of each other that they shared the same hut.

Who acts: wild cat, Lion · What happens: live, be, share · To what, where: lion, other side, same hut

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild cat, Lion), 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 away	advmod
2	away	away	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	nmod
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ago	punct
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 ago	advmod
14	ago	ago	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lion	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brother	cc
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 brother	nmod:poss
20	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 brother	amod
21	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lion	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cat	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cat	det
24	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cat	amod
25	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lion	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fond	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fond	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fond	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 fond	advmod
30	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cat	acl:relcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 each	case
32	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	30 fond	obl
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 each	fixed
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 shared	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 shared	nsubj
36	shared	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 fond	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hut	det
38	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 hut	amod
39	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shared	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a lion and Neuislandischen's younger brother and the wild cat	the other side of the world; there	ago, away property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
2	is	past	the wild cat			of each; fond property	tree rules
3	share	past	Lion	the same hut			tree rules

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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