More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 114

There was a farmer, and he had three cows, fine fat beauties they were.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: be, have · To what, where: three cows

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 had	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cows	nummod
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 beauties	punct
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beauties	amod
13	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beauties	amod
14	beauties	beauty	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cows	nmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 were	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 beauties	acl:relcl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a farmer			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	farmer	three cows fine fat beauties					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient

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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