The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 80

Far, far in the forest there were two little huts, and in each of them lived a man who was a famous hunter, his wife, and three or four children.

Who acts: two little huts, each, man · What happens: be, live · To what, where: man, famous hunter

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two little huts, each, man), 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	3 far	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Far	punct
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 were	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 far	obl
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 were	expl
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 huts	nummod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 huts	amod
11	huts	hut	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 were	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lived	cc
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 lived	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 were	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lived	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 hunter	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 hunter	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hunter	det
24	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hunter	amod
25	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 man	acl:relcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wife	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hunter	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 children	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 children	cc
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 children	nummod
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 four	cc
33	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 three	conj
34	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lived	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two little huts		there	far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	each	a man		three children obl	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
3	is a	past	a man	a famous hunter and Elias's wife			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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