More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 24
Once there was a man Gobborn Seer, and he had a son called Jack.
Who acts: man, Gobborn · What happens: be, have, call · To what, where: son, Jack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Gobborn), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | Gobborn | Gobborn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Seer | compound |
| 7 | Seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 son | acl |
| 15 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a man and Gobborn Seer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Gobborn | a son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | a son not said here | Jack | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient |
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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