More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 68

Well, there was once a gentleman who had fine lands and houses, and he very much wanted to have a son to be heir to them.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: have, be · To what, where: fine lands, son, heir, fox

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 wanted	cop
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 was	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gentleman	det
7	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gentleman	acl:relcl
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lands	amod
11	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 houses	cc
13	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lands	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wanted	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 wanted	nsubj
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 wanted	advmod
19	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 wanted	xcomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 son	det
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	26 heir	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 heir	cop
26	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 son	appos
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 heir	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a gentleman	fine lands and houses			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
2	is	past	gentleman			want property	tree rules
3	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	gentleman not said here	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	is a	to-infinitive		heir	fox		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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