Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Miller of the Dee., sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived on the banks of the River Dee a miller, who was the hap-pi-est man in England.

Who acts: miller · What happens: live, be · To what, where: miller, banks, est man, England

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Miller of the Dee.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miller), 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 lived	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	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 banks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 banks	det
9	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 Dee	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Dee	det
12	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Dee	compound
13	Dee	Dee	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 banks	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 miller	det
15	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 man	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 man	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 man	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
20	hap	hap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pi	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 hap	punct
22	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 est	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 pi	punct
24	est	est	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 man	compound
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 miller	appos
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 England	case
27	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 man	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a miller		the banks of the River Dee; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme miller=Location
2	is a	past	a miller	the est man		England			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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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