The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a great conqueror, and reigned over more countries than anyone in the world.
Who acts: emperor · What happens: live, be, reign over · To what, where: emperor, great conqueror, more countries
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 emperor | det |
| 8 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 conqueror | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 conqueror | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 conqueror | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conqueror | amod |
| 13 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emperor | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reigned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reigned | cc |
| 16 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 reigned | compound:prt |
| 18 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 countries | amod |
| 19 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 reigned | obj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 anyone | case |
| 21 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 reigned | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 anyone | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a emperor | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme emperor=Location | ||
| 2 | is a | past | a emperor | a great conqueror | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reign over | past | more countries | than anyone | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
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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