More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 72

There was once a king and a queen, as many a one has been; few have we seen, and as few may we see.

Who acts: few, we · What happens: be, have, see

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few, we), 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 few	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 queen	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 been	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 been	mark
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 one	amod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 been	nsubj
14	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 been	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 few	punct
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 have	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 see	cc
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 few	case
24	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 see	obl
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 have	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past		few property	tree rules
2	have	present	few		tree rules
3	see	participle	we		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	see	may	we	as few	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as few=Attribute

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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