Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Three Little Men in the Wood, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a man, whose wife had died; and a woman, also, who had lost her husband: and this man and this woman had each a daughter.

Who acts: wife, woman, man · What happens: live, die, lose, have · To what, where: man, husband, daughter

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Three Little Men in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, woman, 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
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 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 died	punct
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 died	aux
13	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 man	acl:relcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 woman	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 woman	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 also	punct
19	also	also	ADV	_	17 woman	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lost	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lost	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 lost	aux
23	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 woman	conj
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 husband	nmod:poss
25	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lost	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	nsubj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 woman	cc
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 woman	det
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 man	conj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	36 daughter	det
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 daughter	det
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	there	time	a woman obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	die	past · perfect	wife					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	lose	past · perfect	a woman	wife's husband				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
4	have	past	this man and this woman	each daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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