The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 3
Near a big river, and between two high mountains, a man and his wife lived in a cottage a long, long time ago.
Who acts: man · What happens: live · To what, where: big river
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Near | near | ADP | _ | 4 river | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 river | amod |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mountains | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mountains | cc |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 10 mountains | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 mountains | nummod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mountains | amod |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 river | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 river | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wife | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 17 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cottage | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cottage | det |
| 20 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lived | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 long | punct |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 lived | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man and his wife | a big river and two high mountains | in a cottage; ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=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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