The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 66
Many years ago there lived a King, who was twice married.
What happens: live, marry · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 years | amod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 married | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 married | aux:pass |
| 11 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 married | advmod |
| 12 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lived | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | year | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | a King | twice property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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