More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 81
Once on a time the men of Gotham had forgotten to pay their landlord.
Who acts: men · What happens: forget, not pay · To what, where: time, landlord
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 forgotten | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gotham | case |
| 8 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 men | nmod |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pay | mark |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forgotten | xcomp |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 landlord | nmod:poss |
| 14 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | past · perfect | the men of Gotham | a time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pay | to-infinitive | the men of Gotham not said here | men's landlord | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent landlord=Asset |
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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