The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 14
In the middle of a great forest there lived a long time ago a charcoal-burner and his wife.
What happens: live · To what, where: charcoal burner, middle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 forest | amod |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lived | advmod |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 lived | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 burner | det |
| 15 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burner | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 charcoal | punct |
| 17 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burner | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a charcoal burner and Patrick's wife | the middle of a great forest; there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=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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