The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 252

There he had a little nest above a window, where his wife lived, who can tell fairy-stories.

Who acts: Denmark, wife · What happens: have, live, tell · To what, where: little nest, window, fairy stories · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Denmark, wife), 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	3 had	expl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nest	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nest	amod
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	above	above	ADP	_	9 window	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 window	det
9	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 lived	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 tell	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 lived	conj
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stories	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fairy	punct
21	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tell	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Denmark	a little nest	a window; there	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
2	live	past	Denmark's wife			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	can		fairy stories		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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