The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 1
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were two brothers, the one rich and the other poor.
Who acts: two brothers · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers), 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 long | 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 long | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 ago | punct |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ago | advmod |
| 9 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 long | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 were | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 were | expl |
| 12 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 long | conj |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 brothers | nummod |
| 14 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 were | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rich | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rich | det |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 rich | nummod |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 brothers | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 poor | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poor | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 poor | amod |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rich | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two brothers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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