The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 1
In a certain town there lived a judge who was married but had no children.
Who acts: judge · What happens: live, be, have · To what, where: judge, certain town, children
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge), 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 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 town | amod |
| 4 | town | town | 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 judge | det |
| 8 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 married | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 married | cop |
| 11 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 judge | acl:relcl |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 children | det |
| 15 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a judge | a certain town; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme judge=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a judge | married property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | no children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient |
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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