The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 82
Far away in the country lay an old manor-house where lived an old squire who had two sons.
Who acts: old squire · What happens: lie, live, have · To what, where: old manor house, country, old squire, two sons
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old squire), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 lay | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 country | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 country | det |
| 5 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 house | amod |
| 9 | manor | manor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 manor | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 lived | advmod |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 house | acl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 squire | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 squire | amod |
| 16 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 squire | acl:relcl |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sons | nummod |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 had | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a old manor house | the country | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | participle | a old squire | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme squire=Location | |||||
| 3 | have | past | a old squire | two sons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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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