The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 3

In the house lived a man who had a wife, and the wife was sad all day long.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: man, house, wife

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 house	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wife	det
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sad	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sad	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sad	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sad	cop
16	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	conj
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 long	obl:unmarked
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 sad	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	the house		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a man	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	is	past	the wife			long, sad property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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