The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 38

Once upon a time there was a country where the rivers were larger, and the forests deeper, than anywhere else.

Who acts: rivers · What happens: be · To what, where: country

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rivers), 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	6 was	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 country	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 larger	csubj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 larger	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rivers	det
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 larger	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 larger	cop
13	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deeper	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 deeper	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forests	det
17	forests	forest	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 deeper	obl:unmarked
18	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 larger	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 deeper	punct
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 anywhere	case
21	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 deeper	conj
22	else	else	ADV	_	21 anywhere	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 larger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a country					tree rules
2	is	past	the rivers					deep, large property	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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