The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 1
There were ance twa widows that lived on a small bit o’ ground, which they rented from a farmer.
Who acts: ance twa widows, ground · What happens: be, live, rent · To what, where: small bit
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ance twa widows, ground), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ance | ance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 widows | compound |
| 4 | twa | twa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 widows | compound |
| 5 | widows | widow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 widows | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bit | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bit | amod |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 12 | o | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 14 ground | case |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 ground | punct |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rented | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 rented | nsubj |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rented | nsubj |
| 18 | rented | rent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ground | acl:relcl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 farmer | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 farmer | det |
| 21 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rented | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | ance twa widows | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | ance twa widows | a small bit | of ground | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bit=Location | |||
| 3 | rent | past | ground | from a farmer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from farmer=Source |
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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