The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 3
In a large town in Germany there lived, some couple of hundred years ago, a cobbler and his wife.
What happens: live · To what, where: couple, large town
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 town | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 town | det |
| 3 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 town | amod |
| 4 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Germany | case |
| 6 | Germany | Germany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 town | nmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 couple | punct |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 couple | det |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 years | case |
| 13 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couple | nmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 14 years | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cobbler | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cobbler | det |
| 18 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 couple | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wife | cc |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cobbler | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | some couple of hundred years and a cobbler and Germany's wife | a large town in Germany; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |
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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