More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 92

There was once an old woman, who earned a poor living by going errands and such like, for the farmers' wives round about the village where she lived.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: be, earn, go, live · To what, where: poor living, errands

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, woman), 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 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 earned	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 earned	nsubj
9	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 living	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 living	amod
12	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 earned	obj
13	by	by	SCONJ	_	14 going	mark
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 earned	advcl
15	errands	errand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 going	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 like	cc
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 like	amod
18	like	like	INTJ	_	15 errands	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wives	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 wives	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 farmers	det
22	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wives	nmod:poss
23	'	's	PART	_	22 farmers	case
24	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 going	obl
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 wives	advmod
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 village	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 village	det
28	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wives	nmod
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 lived	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lived	nsubj
31	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 village	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	earn	past	a old woman	a poor living			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
3	go	gerund	a old woman not said here	errands		for the farmers's wives about the village	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location errand=Theme
4	live	past	woman				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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