The Violet Fairy Book, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet, sentence 1
In a little village in the country of Japan there lived long, long ago a man and his wife.
What happens: live · To what, where: man, little village
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet. 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 village | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 village | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Japan | case |
| 9 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | nmod |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | advmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ago | advmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 man | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man and Japan's wife | a little village in the country of Japan; there | long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=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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