The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a castle in the middle of a thick wood where lived an old woman quite alone, for she was an enchantress.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, live · To what, where: old woman

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 castle	det
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 castle	nmod
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 wood	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wood	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wood	amod
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 middle	nmod
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 lived	advmod
17	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wood	acl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obj
21	quite	quite	ADV	_	22 alone	advmod
22	alone	alone	ADV	_	17 lived	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 enchantress	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	28 enchantress	case
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 enchantress	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 enchantress	cop
27	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 enchantress	det
28	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	participle		a old woman			alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location
3	is	past	woman				for a enchantress	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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