The Red Fairy Book, The Seven Foals, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a couple of poor folks who lived in a wretched hut, far away from everyone else, in a wood.
Who acts: poor folks · What happens: be, live · To what, where: wretched hut
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Seven Foals. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor folks), 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 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 couple | det |
| 8 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod:unmarked |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 folks | case |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 folks | amod |
| 11 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 couple | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 folks | acl:relcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 16 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hut | amod |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 away | punct |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 lived | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 everyone | case |
| 22 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 away | obl |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 everyone | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wood | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 wood | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | poor folks | a wretched hut | in a wood; away property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=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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