The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 3

Now on the borders of his kingdom lay a country whose emperor was as brave as his neighbour, and as long as he was young he was the victor in every war.

Who acts: borders, emperor, king · What happens: lie, be · To what, where: country, victor, war

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 (borders, emperor, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lay	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 borders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 borders	det
4	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lay	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 kingdom	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 kingdom	nmod:poss
7	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 borders	nmod
8	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lay	obj
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 emperor	nmod:poss
12	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brave	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brave	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 brave	advmod
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lay	parataxis
16	as	as	ADP	_	18 neighbour	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neighbour	nmod:poss
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 brave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 young	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 young	cc
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 long	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 young	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 young	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 young	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 young	cop
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brave	conj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 victor	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 victor	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 victor	det
30	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 young	parataxis
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 war	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 war	det
33	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 victor	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the borders of king's kingdom	a country		now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location country=Theme
2	is	past	emperor				as king's neighbour; brave property	tree rules
3	is	past	king				long, young property	tree rules
4	is a	past	king	the victor	every war			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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