The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 51
There was once a worthy old couple who lived on the coast, and supported themselves by fishing.
Who acts: worthy old couple · What happens: be, live, support · To what, where: coast, Brauns
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (worthy old couple), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 couple | det |
| 5 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 couple | amod |
| 7 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 couple | acl:relcl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 coast | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coast | det |
| 12 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 supported | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 supported | cc |
| 15 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lived | advcl |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 supported | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 fishing | case |
| 18 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 supported | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a worthy old couple | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a worthy old couple | the coast | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on coast=Location | ||||
| 3 | support | participle | a worthy old couple not said here | Brauns = braun | by fishing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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