The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 15

The richest was named first; the poorest, he was told, was a young girl who lived alone in a little cottage at the far end of the village.

Who acts: young girl · What happens: name, tell, be, live · To what, where: richest, poorest, young girl, little cottage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 richest	det
2	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 named	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 named	aux:pass
4	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 named	advmod
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 poorest	det
8	poorest	poor	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 told	nsubj:pass
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 poorest	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	aux:pass
12	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 named	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 girl	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 girl	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	iobj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 girl	acl:relcl
20	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 lived	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 cottage	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cottage	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cottage	amod
24	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	28 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
27	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 end	amod
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 village	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 village	det
31	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 named	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name	past · passive		the richest			first property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the poorest				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient girl=Topic
3	is a	past		a young girl				tree rules
4	live	past	a young girl		a little cottage	at the far end of the village	alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location

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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