Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 82

Once upon a time there was a Smith, and he had one son, a sharp, smart, six-year-old boy.

Who acts: Smith, freshness · What happens: be, have · To what, where: one son

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, freshness), 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	8 Smith	det
8	Smith	Smith	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 son	nummod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boy	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 boy	det
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sharp	punct
19	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 smart	punct
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 year	nummod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 six	punct
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 old	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 year	punct
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boy	amod
26	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	appos
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a Smith			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	freshness	one son					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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