More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 87

In a great Palace by the sea there once dwelt a very rich old lord, who had neither wife nor children living, only one little granddaughter, whose face he had never seen in all her life.

Who acts: rich old lord, wife, dog · What happens: dwell, have, live, not see · To what, where: rich old lord, great Palace, wife, face, life

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 (rich old lord, wife, dog), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Palace	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Palace	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Palace	amod
4	Palace	Palace	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 dwelt	obl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelt	obl
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sea	advmod
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 dwelt	advmod
10	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lord	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 rich	advmod
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lord	amod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lord	amod
15	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dwelt	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lord	acl:relcl
19	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 wife	cc:preconj
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 children	cc
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wife	conj
23	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 wife	acl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 granddaughter	punct
25	only	only	ADV	_	28 granddaughter	advmod
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 granddaughter	nummod
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 granddaughter	amod
28	granddaughter	granddaughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 living	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 face	punct
30	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 granddaughter	appos
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seen	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seen	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 seen	advmod
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 face	acl:relcl
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 life	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 life	det:predet
38	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 life	nmod:poss
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a rich old lord	a great Palace	by the sea; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme lord=Location
2	have	past	a rich old lord	wife nor children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
3	live	gerund	wife nor children not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	past · perfect	dog	one little granddaughter's face not said here	wife's life		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=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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