English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 1
At Hilton Hall, long years ago, there lived a Brownie that was the contrariest Brownie you ever knew.
Who acts: you · What happens: live, be, know · To what, where: Brownie, Hilton Hall, contrariest Brownie
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 Hall | case |
| 2 | Hilton | Hilton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Hall | compound |
| 3 | Hall | Hall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hall | punct |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 years | amod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 10 lived | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ago | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 lived | expl |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Brownie | det |
| 12 | Brownie | brownie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 knew | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Brownie | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Brownie | det |
| 16 | contrariest | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 Brownie | amod |
| 17 | Brownie | Brownie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 knew | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 knew | advmod |
| 20 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Brownie | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a Brownie | Hilton Hall; there | ago property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme brownie=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | you not said here | the contrariest Brownie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | past | you | a Brownie | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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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