The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 35

Once upon a time there lived a man who had only one son, a lazy, stupid boy, who would never do anything he was told.

Who acts: man, lazy stupid boy · What happens: live, have, not do, tell · To what, where: man, one son, anything, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, lazy stupid boy), 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 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 son	nummod
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
16	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lazy	punct
18	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 son	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 do	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 do	advmod
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 boy	acl:relcl
25	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 do	obj
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 told	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 told	aux:pass
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 anything	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a man	one son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	not do	would	a lazy stupid boy	anything				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality
4	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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