The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 1
There was once a king who ruled over a kingdom somewhere between sunrise and sunset.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, rule · To what, where: kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 kingdom | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kingdom | det |
| 10 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 11 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 sunrise | case |
| 13 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sunset | cc |
| 15 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sunrise | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | rule | past | a king | a kingdom | sunrise | somewhere property | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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