The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 15
Once upon a time there lived in France a man whose name was Jalm Riou.
Who acts: name, Jalm · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: man, France, Jalm
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Jalm), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 France | case |
| 8 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Jalm | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Jalm | cop |
| 14 | Jalm | Jalm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 man | nmod |
| 15 | Riou | Riou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Jalm | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | France; there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | Jalm's name | Jalm | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Jalm | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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