The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 45
A long long time ago, an old couple dwelt in the very heart of a high mountain.
Who acts: old couple · What happens: dwell · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 couple | amod |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | nsubj |
| 10 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 heart | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 heart | advmod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dwelt | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mountain | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mountain | det |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mountain | amod |
| 18 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heart | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | a old couple | the heart of a high mountain | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=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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