The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 66
In the land of Erin there dwelt long ago a widow who had an only son.
Who acts: widow · What happens: dwell, have · To what, where: widow, land, only son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 land | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 land | det |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 land | nmod |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 7 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 7 dwelt | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 widow | det |
| 11 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dwelt | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 widow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a widow | the land of Erin; there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | a widow | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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