The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 1
Not very long ago there lived a King, the fame of whose wisdom was spread far and wide.
What happens: not live, spread · To what, where: King
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ago | advmod |
| 4 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 5 there | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fame | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fame | det |
| 11 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wisdom | case |
| 13 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 14 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fame | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spread | aux:pass |
| 16 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lived | parataxis |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 spread | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wide | cc |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 far | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | a King | far property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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