The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 18
He lived by the shore of the big sea; where else could he live?
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: live
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 shore | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sea | det |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sea | amod |
| 9 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shore | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 live | advmod |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 where | advmod |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lived | conj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | fisherman | by the shore of the big sea | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by shore=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | could | fisherman | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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