Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Six Swans, sentence 71

There were once a man and a woman who had long in in vain wished for a child.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, wish

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 man	conj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
11	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 had	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	18 child	case
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 child	case
14	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 child	amod
15	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 child	amod
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 child	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 child	det
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man and a woman	there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man and a woman		in a vain wished child; long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	wish	participle				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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