The Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding Hood, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.
What happens: live, see · To what, where: little country girl, certain village, prettiest creature
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Red Riding Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 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 | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 9 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 village | amod |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 girl | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 girl | amod |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 girl | compound |
| 14 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 creature | det |
| 17 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 creature | amod |
| 18 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lived | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a little country girl | a certain village; there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme girl=Location | ||
| 2 | see | past · passive | the prettiest creature | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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