The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 48

Now there lived in the village not far from Simon’s house, a peasant who had two goats, so alike in every respect that it was impossible to distinguish one from the other.

Who acts: peasant, respect · What happens: live, have, be, distinguish · To what, where: village, two goats, one

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 (peasant, respect), 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	3 lived	advmod
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 far	advmod
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 house	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 house	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Simon	case
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 peasant	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 peasant	det
15	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	appos
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 peasant	acl:relcl
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 goats	nummod
19	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 had	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 alike	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 alike	advmod
22	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 respect	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 respect	det
25	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 alike	obl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 impossible	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 impossible	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 impossible	cop
29	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 respect	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 distinguish	mark
31	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 impossible	csubj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 distinguish	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 distinguish	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			the village; there	now	from Simon's house	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	have	past	a peasant	two goats				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Patient
3	is	past	every respect not said here				impossible property	tree rules
4	distinguish	to-infinitive		one			from the other	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme from other=Co-Theme

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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