The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 28

In the old land of Brittany, once called Cornwall, there lived a woman named Barbaik Bourhis, who spent all her days in looking after her farm with the help of her niece Tephany.

Who acts: Barbaik · What happens: call, live, name, spend, look, help · To what, where: Brittany, woman, old land, niece · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik), 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	_	4 land	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 land	amod
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Brittany	case
6	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 land	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Brittany	acl
10	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 lived	expl
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obj
16	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 woman	acl
17	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 named	xcomp
18	Bourhis	Bourhis	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Barbaik	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spent	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 spent	nsubj
21	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Barbaik	acl:relcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 days	det:predet
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 days	nmod:poss
24	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spent	obj
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 looking	mark
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 spent	advcl
27	after	after	ADP	_	29 farm	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 farm	nmod:poss
29	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 help	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 help	det
32	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 looking	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 niece	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 niece	nmod:poss
35	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 help	nmod
36	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 niece	appos
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		Brittany not said here			once property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	live	past		a woman	the old land of Brittany; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location
3	name	participle		a woman not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	spend	past	Barbaik			day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	look	gerund	Barbaik not said here			after Barbaik's farm	with the help of Barbaik's niece	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	help			Barbaik's niece				nom help «act transitive»: of=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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