The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 81
There was once a little farmer and his wife living near Coolgarrow.
Who acts: little farmer, wife · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Coolgarrow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little farmer, wife), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 farmer | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 farmer | amod |
| 6 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wife | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 farmer | conj |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wife | acl |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 12 Coolgarrow | case |
| 12 | Coolgarrow | Coolgarrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 living | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a little farmer and LL.D's wife | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | LL.D's wife not said here | Coolgarrow | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near coolgarrow=Location |
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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