Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 74

Its opening words are, "There once lived an old man and an old woman, and they had a little daughter.

Who acts: opening words, words, part · What happens: live, have, word · To what, where: old man, little daughter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., 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 (opening words, words, part), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 words	nmod:poss
2	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	compound
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lived	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 ,	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 words	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
7	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 lived	expl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 lived	advmod
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 man	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 man	amod
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 woman	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 man	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lived	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daughter	amod
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live in a quote	past	part's opening words	a old man and a old woman	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have in a quote	past	words = word	a little daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	word		part				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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