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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 77

In old times, when all kinds of wonderful things happened in Brittany, there lived in the village of Lanillis, a young man named Houarn Pogamm and a girl called Bellah Postik.

Who acts: kinds · What happens: happen, live, name, call · To what, where: Brittany, village, young man, girl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kinds), 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

caseamodoblpunctadvmoddetnsubjcaseamodnmodacl:relclcaseoblpunctexplcasedetoblcasenmodpunctdetamodconjaclxcompflatccdetconjaclxcompflatpunctrootInADPoldADJtimesNOUN,PUNCTwhenADVallDETkindsNOUNofADPwonderfulADJthingsNOUNhappenedVERBinADPBrittanyPROPN,PUNCTtherePRONlivedVERBinADPtheDETvillageNOUNofADPLanillisPROPN,PUNCTaDETyoungADJmanNOUNnamedVERBHouarnPROPNPogammPROPNandCCONJaDETgirlNOUNcalledVERBBellahPROPNPostikPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_3 timescase
2oldoldADJDegree=Pos3 timesamod
3timestimeNOUNNumber=Plur16 livedobl
4,,PUNCT_11 happenedpunct
5whenwhenADVPronType=Int11 happenedadvmod
6allallDETPronType=Tot7 kindsdet
7kindskindNOUNNumber=Plur11 happenednsubj
8ofofADP_10 thingscase
9wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos10 thingsamod
10thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur7 kindsnmod
11happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 timesacl:relcl
12ininADP_13 Brittanycase
13BrittanyBrittanyPROPNNumber=Sing11 happenedobl
14,,PUNCT_3 timespunct
15theretherePRONPronType=Dem16 livedexpl
16livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17ininADP_19 villagecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 villagedet
19villagevillageNOUNNumber=Sing16 livedobl
20ofofADP_21 Lanilliscase
21LanillisLanillisPROPNNumber=Sing19 villagenmod
22,,PUNCT_25 manpunct
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 mandet
24youngyoungADJDegree=Pos25 manamod
25manmanNOUNNumber=Sing19 villageconj
26namednameVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 manacl
27HouarnHouarnPROPNNumber=Sing26 namedxcomp
28PogammPogammPROPNNumber=Sing27 Houarnflat
29andandCCONJ_31 girlcc
30aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art31 girldet
31girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing19 villageconj
32calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass31 girlacl
33BellahBellahPROPNNumber=Sing32 calledxcomp
34PostikPostikPROPNNumber=Sing33 Bellahflat
35..PUNCT_16 livedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastall kinds of wonderful thingsBrittanyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in brittany=Location
2livepastthe village of Lanillis and a young man and a girl; theretimevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
3nameparticiplea young man not said herevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4callparticiplea girl not said herevn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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