The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 53

In a little village that stood on a wide plain, where you could see the sun from the moment he rose to the moment he set, there lived two couples side by side.

Who acts: little village, you, lion · What happens: stand, see, rise, set, live · To what, where: wide plain, sun, moment, two couples, little village

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little village, you, 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 village	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 village	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 village	amod
4	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lived	obl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stood	nsubj
6	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 village	acl:relcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 plain	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 plain	det
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plain	amod
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stood	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 see	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 see	aux
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stood	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 moment	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 moment	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 moment	det
25	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 set	nsubj
27	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 moment	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 village	punct
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 lived	expl
30	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 couples	nummod
32	couples	couple	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 lived	obj
33	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lived	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 side	case
35	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 side	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	a little village		a wide plain			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on plain=Location
2	see	could	you	the sun		moment		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
3	rise	past	lion	the moment not said here		moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme
4	set	past	lion	the moment not said here				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient moment=Result
5	live	past		two couples	a little village; there		side by side obl	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=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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