More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 73

Once upon a time there were two girls who lived with their mother and father.

Who acts: two girls · What happens: be, live

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 (two girls), 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	6 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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 girls	nummod
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 girls	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 mother	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 father	cc
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	two girls			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	two girls					with girls's mother and father	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=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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