The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 1

A poor man and his wife lived in a little cottage, where they supported themselves by catching fish in the nearest river, and got on as best they could, living from hand to mouth.

Who acts: poor man, man · What happens: live, support, catch, get on · To what, where: little cottage, man, fish, nearest river, hand

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wife	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 man	conj
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cottage	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cottage	amod
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 supported	punct
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 supported	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 supported	nsubj
15	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 supported	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 catching	mark
18	catching	catch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 supported	advcl
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 catching	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
22	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 river	amod
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fish	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 got	cc
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lived	conj
27	on	on	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 best	advmod
29	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 could	nsubj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 got	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 living	punct
33	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 got	advcl
34	from	from	ADP	_	35 hand	case
35	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 living	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 mouth	case
37	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 living	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor man and his wife		a little cottage		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	support	past	man	man			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus
3	catch	gerund	man not said here	fish	the nearest river		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
4	get on	past	a poor man and his wife not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	live	gerund	a poor man and his wife not said here		hand	to mouth	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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