The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 78

Once upon a time there was an old man who lived in a little hut in the middle of a forest.

Who acts: old man · What happens: be, live · To what, where: little hut

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 hut	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hut	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hut	amod
15	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 middle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 middle	det
18	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hut	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 forest	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 forest	det
21	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 middle	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old man			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a old man			a little hut in the middle of a forest			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hut=Location

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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