The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 23
Long, long ago, in the days when fairies, witches, giants and ogres still visited the earth, there lived a king who reigned over a great and beautiful country.
Who acts: Long days, king · What happens: visit, live, reign · To what, where: earth, king, great country
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long days, king), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 days | amod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ago | punct |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 1 Long | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 days | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 days | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 days | det |
| 8 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 visited | nsubj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 visited | advmod |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 visited | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 witches | punct |
| 12 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fairies | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 giants | punct |
| 14 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fairies | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ogres | cc |
| 16 | ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fairies | conj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 18 visited | advmod |
| 18 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 visited | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lived | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 lived | expl |
| 23 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 visited | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 king | det |
| 25 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lived | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 reigned | nsubj |
| 27 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 king | acl:relcl |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 33 country | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 country | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 country | amod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beautiful | cc |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 great | conj |
| 33 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reigned | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | the Long days | the earth | still | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | live | past | the Long days not said here | a king | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 3 | reign | past | a king | a great country | 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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