The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 1

A poor widow once lived in a little cottage with a garden in front of it, in which grew two rose trees, one bearing white roses and the other red.

Who acts: poor widow, two · What happens: live, grow, rise · To what, where: little cottage, bearing white roses, trees

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor widow, two), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 widow	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 widow	amod
3	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 lived	advmod
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cottage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 garden	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 garden	det
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cottage	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 front	case
14	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 front	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lived	conj
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 rose	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 roses	punct
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 bearing	nummod
26	bearing	bearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 roses	compound
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	amod
28	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grew	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 red	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 red	amod
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 roses	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor widow		a little cottage with a garden	in front of front; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	grow	past		bearing white roses			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rise	past	two	trees			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=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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