Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 1, sentence 5

Once upon a time there was a wicked sprite, indeed he was the most mischievous of all sprites.

Who acts: wicked sprite, he · What happens: be · To what, where: mischievous

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wicked sprite, he), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sprite	det
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sprite	amod
9	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mischievous	punct
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	16 mischievous	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 mischievous	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 mischievous	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mischievous	det
15	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	16 mischievous	advmod
16	mischievous	mischievou	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sprite	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 sprites	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 sprites	det
19	sprites	sprite	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 mischievous	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a wicked sprite and the mischievous			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	he	the mischievous				of all sprites; indeed 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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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