The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 144

Now in the outskirts of the capital there lived an old man, who had spent his life in studying black arts--alchemy, astrology, magic, and enchantment.

Who acts: outskirts, old man · What happens: live, spend, study · To what, where: old man, life, black arts

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 (outskirts, old man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 lived	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 outskirts	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 outskirts	det
4	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 capital	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 capital	det
7	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 outskirts	nmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 capital	advmod
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spent	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spent	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 spent	aux
16	spent	spend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 man	acl:relcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spent	obj
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 studying	mark
20	studying	study	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 spent	advcl
21	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 arts	amod
22	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 studying	obj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 alchemy	punct
24	alchemy	alchemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arts	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 astrology	punct
26	astrology	astrology	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 arts	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 magic	punct
28	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 astrology	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enchantment	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 enchantment	cc
31	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the outskirts of the capital	a old man	now	enchantment obl	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	spend	past · perfect	a old man	man's life			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset
3	study	gerund	a old man not said here	black arts and alchemy and astrology and magic			vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Topic

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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