The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 1
Once upon a time there stood before the palace of an emperor a golden apple tree, which blossomed and bore fruit each night.
Who acts: golden apple tree · What happens: stand, blossom, bear · To what, where: golden apple tree, palace, fruit
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (golden apple tree), 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 stood | 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 stood | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 emperor | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 emperor | det |
| 12 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 palace | nmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 15 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 blossomed | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 blossomed | nsubj |
| 19 | blossomed | blossom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tree | acl:relcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bore | cc |
| 21 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 blossomed | conj |
| 22 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bore | obj |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bore | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a golden apple tree | the palace of a emperor; there | time | once property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before palace=Location | ||
| 2 | blossom | past | a golden apple tree | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | bear | past | a golden apple tree not said here | fruit | night | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=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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