The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 26
In a little house at the edge of a village lived a widow with her only son, and they were very happy together.
Who acts: houses · What happens: live, be · To what, where: widow, little house
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (houses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 house | amod |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 widow | det |
| 13 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lived | obl |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 son | advmod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 happy | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 happy | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 happy | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 23 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | parataxis |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 23 happy | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a widow | a little house at the edge of a village | with WIDOW; son obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | houses = house | happy, together property | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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