The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 39
An old couple once lived in a hut under a grove of palm trees, and they had one son and one daughter.
Who acts: old couple, trees · What happens: live, have · To what, where: hut, one son
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple, trees), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 couple | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 couple | amod |
| 3 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hut | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hut | det |
| 8 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 grove | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 grove | det |
| 11 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | compound |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grove | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 had | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 son | nummod |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 daughter | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 daughter | nummod |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 son | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old couple | a hut | under a grove of palm trees; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location | |||
| 2 | have | past | trees = tree | one son and one daughter | 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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