The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a King who had a wife with golden hair, and she was so beautiful that you couldn’t find anyone like her in the world.
Who acts: time, wife, you · What happens: be, have, not find · To what, where: wife, anyone, world
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, wife, you), 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 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 hair | case |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 beautiful | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 beautiful | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 beautiful | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 beautiful | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 was | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 find | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 find | aux |
| 25 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 find | advmod |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 beautiful | advcl |
| 27 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 find | obj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 her | case |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 anyone | nmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a time | a wife | with golden hair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | wife | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not find | could | you | anyone | the world | like wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Topic |
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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