The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 102
A poor woodcutter lived with his wife and three daughters in a little hut on the borders of a great forest.
Who acts: poor woodcutter · What happens: live · To what, where: little hut
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woodcutter), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 woodcutter | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woodcutter | amod |
| 3 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 daughters | cc |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 daughters | nummod |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wife | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hut | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hut | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hut | amod |
| 14 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 borders | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 borders | det |
| 17 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 forest | amod |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 borders | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a poor woodcutter | a little hut | with woodcutter's wife and three daughters; on the borders of a great forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=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 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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