The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 78

Once upon a time there lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-post.

Who acts: king · What happens: live, be, not go, sleep, know, have · To what, where: king, wine, great flaskful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fond	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 fond	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 fond	advmod
12	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 king	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 wine	case
14	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fond	obl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 go	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wine	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sleep	mark
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	xcomp
22	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	24 knew	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 knew	nsubj
24	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	advcl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 knew	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 flaskful	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 flaskful	amod
29	flaskful	flaskful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 flaskful	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	35 post	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 post	nmod:poss
33	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 post	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 bed	punct
35	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tied	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a king	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	is	past	a king				of wine; fond property	tree rules
3	not go	could	king	wine not said here				tree rules
4	sleep	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know a condition, not said to happen	past	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have	past	king	a great flaskful				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flaskful=Patient
7	tie	participle		a great flaskful not said here			to king's bed post	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to post=Co-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: «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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