The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 1

At the edge of a wood there lived an old man who had only one son, and one day he called the boy to him and said he wanted some corn ground, but the youth must be sure never to enter any mill where the miller was beardless.

Who acts: old man, man, youth, miller · What happens: live, have, call, say, want, be · To what, where: old man, edge, one son, boy, corn ground, mill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, man, youth, miller), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 wood	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 son	nummod
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	obl:unmarked
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 called	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	conj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wanted	nsubj
30	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 said	ccomp
31	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 ground	det
32	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ground	compound
33	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wanted	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sure	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 sure	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 youth	det
37	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sure	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 sure	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	cop
40	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lived	conj
41	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	43 enter	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 enter	mark
43	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 sure	xcomp
44	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	45 mill	det
45	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 enter	obj
46	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	50 beardless	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 miller	det
48	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 beardless	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 beardless	cop
50	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 mill	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old man		the edge of a wood; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a old man	one son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	call	past	man	the boy	boy		day		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	man not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	want	past	man	some corn ground					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ground=Theme
6	is	must	the youth					sure property	tree rules
7	not enter	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	any mill					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mill=Destination
8	is	past	the miller					beardless 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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