More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 22

Once upon a time there was a girl who was married to a husband that she never saw.

Who acts: girl · What happens: be, marry, not see · To what, where: girl, husband

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 married	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 married	aux:pass
11	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 girl	acl:relcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 husband	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 husband	det
14	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 married	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 saw	advmod
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 husband	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a girl		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	past · passive		a girl		to a husband	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to husband=Co-Patient
3	not see	past	girl	a husband not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=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: «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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