The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 1
Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden.
Who acts: spacious garden · What happens: live, surround · To what, where: king, palace
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spacious garden), 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 | 10 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 | 10 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 country | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 country | amod |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lived | advmod |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obj |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 16 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 king | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 19 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 garden | amod |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | ||
| 2 | surround | past · passive | a spacious garden | palace | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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