The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 48

Once upon a time there lived an old man who had only one son, whom he loved dearly; but they were very poor, and often had scarcely enough to eat.

Who acts: old man, man, skill · What happens: live, have, love, be, eat · To what, where: old man, one son

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. 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, man, skill), 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	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 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	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 son	nummod
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 loved	punct
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 loved	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 loved	nsubj
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 son	acl:relcl
19	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	18 loved	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 poor	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 poor	cc
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 poor	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 poor	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 poor	advmod
25	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 had	cc
28	often	often	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
30	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	31 enough	advmod
31	enough	enough	ADV	_	29 had	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 eat	mark
33	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 enough	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a old man	one son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	love	past	man	one son			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	is	past	skill				poor property	tree rules
5	have	past					enough, often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	eat	to-infinitive						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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