More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 64

Once upon a time there was a farmer called Jan, and he lived all alone by himself in a little farmhouse.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, call, live · To what, where: farmer, little farmhouse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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 was	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 farmer	acl
10	Jan	January	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lived	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 lived	nsubj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	conj
15	all	all	ADV	_	16 alone	advmod
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 lived	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 lived	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 farmhouse	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 farmhouse	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 farmhouse	amod
22	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a farmer		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		a farmer not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	farmer		a little farmhouse	by farmer; alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in farmhouse=Location

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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