The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a man called Simon, who was very rich, but at the same time as stingy and miserly as he could be.
Who acts: Simon · What happens: live, call, be · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (Simon), 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 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl |
| 10 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rich | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 rich | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 rich | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 rich | advmod |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Simon | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 time | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | amod |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 stingy | case |
| 23 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 time | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 miserly | cc |
| 25 | miserly | miserly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stingy | conj |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 be | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 be | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 be | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 miserly | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | call | participle | a man not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Simon | rich 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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