More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 128

Once upon a time, when all big folks were wee ones and all lies were true, there was a wee, wee Mannie that had a big, big Coo.

Who acts: big folks, wee ones, wee · What happens: be, have · To what, where: wee ones, big big Coo

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big folks, wee ones, wee), 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	17 true	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	17 true	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ones	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ones	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 folks	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folks	amod
9	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ones	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ones	cop
11	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ones	amod
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 true	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lies	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 lies	det
15	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ones	conj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	cop
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 was	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 was	expl
20	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 true	parataxis
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 wee	det
22	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 was	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Mannie	punct
24	wee	wee	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Mannie	amod
25	Mannie	Mannie	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 wee	appos
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 wee	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Coo	det
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Coo	amod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 big	punct
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Coo	amod
32	Coo	coo	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	all big folks	wee ones and all lies				tree rules
2	is	past	wee ones and all lies			time	once, true property	tree rules
3	be	past	a wee		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	a wee	a big big Coo				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coo=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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