More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 40

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any one else's time, there was a young lad of eighteen or so named Tom Tiver working on the Hall Farm.

Who acts: companion, Tom · What happens: not be, name, work · To what, where: Tom

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companion, Tom), 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	root	root
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	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 time	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	obl:unmarked
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 time	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 time	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 time	nmod:poss
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 time	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 time	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 time	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 time	nmod:poss
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 time	punct
27	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 time	cc
28	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 time	nmod:poss
30	else	else	ADV	_	29 one	advmod
31	's	's	PART	_	29 one	case
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 was	punct
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 was	expl
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 time	acl:relcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 lad	det
37	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lad	amod
38	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 was	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 eighteen	case
40	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 lad	nmod
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 named	cc
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 named	advmod
43	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 time	conj
44	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 named	obj
45	Tiver	Tiver	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 Tom	flat
46	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	44 Tom	acl
47	on	on	ADP	_	50 Farm	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Farm	det
49	Hall	Hall	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Farm	compound
50	Farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 working	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	companion		in my time nor your time; time		tree rules
2	name	participle	companion not said here	Tom			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tom=Theme
3	work	gerund	Tom not said here			on the Hall Farm	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme

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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