The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 168
Not far from the fountain there lived a family of bricklayers.
What happens: live · To what, where: family, fountain
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 far | advmod |
| 2 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | advmod |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 fountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 family | det |
| 9 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 bricklayers | case |
| 11 | bricklayers | bricklayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 family | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a family of bricklayers | the fountain; there | far property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location |
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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