The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 78

Once upon a time there lived a poor man who had more children than bread to feed them with.

Who acts: poor man · What happens: live, have, feed · To what, where: poor man, more children, children

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 bread	case
15	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 feed	mark
17	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 feed	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	17 feed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a poor man	more children			than bread	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	feed	to-infinitive	a poor man not said here	children = child				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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