English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 1
In the days of the great Prince Arthur, there lived a mighty magician, called Merlin, the most learned and skilful enchanter the world has ever seen.
Who acts: world · What happens: live, call, learn, see · To what, where: mighty magician, learned enchanter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Arthur | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Arthur | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Arthur | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Arthur | compound |
| 8 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 days | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | expl |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 13 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 magician | amod |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 called | punct |
| 16 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 magician | acl |
| 17 | Merlin | Merlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 called | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 enchanter | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 enchanter | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 learned | advmod |
| 21 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 enchanter | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 skilful | cc |
| 23 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 learned | conj |
| 24 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Merlin | appos |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 seen | advmod |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 enchanter | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a mighty magician | there | day | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme magician=Location | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a mighty magician not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | the world | the learned enchanter not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enchanter=Stimulus |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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