The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 19

In a village there once lived a smith called Basmus, who was in a very poor way.

Who acts: Basmus · What happens: live, call, be · To what, where: smith, village, poor way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Basmus), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 village	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 village	advmod
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 smith	det
8	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 smith	acl
10	Basmus	Basmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 way	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 way	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 way	cop
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 way	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 way	det
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 poor	advmod
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 way	amod
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Basmus	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a smith	a village	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme smith=Location
2	call	participle		a smith not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Basmus		a poor way		tree rules

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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