The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 51

Now, in a small village in his kingdom there lived an old widow who had no children or relations of any kind.

Who acts: old widow · What happens: live, have · To what, where: old widow, small village, children

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old widow), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 village	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 village	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 kingdom	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 kingdom	nmod:poss
9	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 village	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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 widow	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 widow	amod
14	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 widow	acl:relcl
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 children	det
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 relations	cc
20	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 children	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 kind	case
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	23 kind	det
23	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 relations	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old widow		a small village in king's kingdom; there	now		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location
2	have	past	a old widow	no children or relations of any kind					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/51/