The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 5
Now there lived at this same court a very rich old duchess whose name was Grumbly.
Who acts: rich old duchess, Grumbly · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: same court, Grumbly
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old duchess, Grumbly), 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 | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 court | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 court | amod |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 duchess | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 rich | advmod |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 duchess | amod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 duchess | amod |
| 12 | duchess | duchess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Grumbly | nsubj |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 name | nmod:poss |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Grumbly | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Grumbly | cop |
| 16 | Grumbly | Grumbly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 court | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | participle | this same court; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | a rich old duchess | Grumbly | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | Grumbly | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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