The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 1
There once lived in a small town in China a man named Hok Lee.
Who acts: man · What happens: live, name · To what, where: small town, man
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 town | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 town | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 town | amod |
| 7 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 China | case |
| 9 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 town | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | Hok | Hok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Lee | compound |
| 14 | Lee | Lee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | a small town in China; there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location | |||
| 2 | name | participle | a man not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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