More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 109

Once upon a time there was an old king who had three sons; and the old king fell very sick one time and there was nothing at all could make him well but some golden apples from a far country.

Who acts: old king, nothing · What happens: be, have, fall · To what, where: three sons

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old king, nothing), 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 was	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 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 king	acl:relcl
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sons	nummod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 fell	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fell	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 king	amod
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	nsubj
19	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	parataxis
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 sick	advmod
21	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 time	nummod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fell	obl:unmarked
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 was	cc
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 was	expl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 make	cop
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	31 make	nsubj
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 all	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 nothing	nmod
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 make	aux
31	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fell	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 make	obj
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 make	advmod
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 apples	cc
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 apples	det
36	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 apples	amod
37	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 make	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 country	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 country	det
40	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 country	amod
41	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 apples	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old king		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a old king	three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	fall	past	the old king			time		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	could · past	nothing				make, well property	tree rules

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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