The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 1

Long, long ago an old couple lived in a village, and, as they had no children to love and care for, they gave all their affection to a little dog.

Who acts: old couple, they, children · What happens: live, have, love, care, give · To what, where: village, children, affection, little dog

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple, they, children), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	8 lived	advmod
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 couple	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 couple	amod
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gave	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gave	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 gave	advcl
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 love	mark
21	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 care	cc
23	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 love	conj
24	for	for	ADP	_	23 care	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 gave	nsubj
27	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 affection	det:predet
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 affection	nmod:poss
30	affection	affection	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 dog	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 dog	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dog	amod
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gave	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a old couple			a village	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	have	past	they	no children				tree rules
3	love	to-infinitive	no children not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	care	infinitive	no children not said here					vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	give	past	children = child	children's affection	a little dog			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent affection=Theme to dog=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 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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