The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 29

There lay three houses in a row, in one of which there lived a tailor, in another a carpenter, and in the third a smith.

What happens: lie, live · To what, where: three houses, row, tailor

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 lay	expl
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 houses	nummod
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lay	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 row	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 row	det
7	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 lay	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lived	obl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 lived	advmod
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tailor	det
16	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carpenter	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 carpenter	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 carpenter	det
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 carpenter	det
21	carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 third	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 third	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 third	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 third	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 lay	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 smith	det
28	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 third	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		three houses		a row; there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme
2	live	past		a tailor		there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=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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