More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 16
Once upon a time, there were three Bears who lived in a castle in a great wood.
Who acts: three Bears · What happens: be, live · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three Bears), 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 | 7 were | 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 were | expl |
| 7 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Bears | nummod |
| 9 | Bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 were | nsubj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Bears | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 wood | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wood | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wood | amod |
| 18 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three Bears | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | three Bears | a castle | in a great wood | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
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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