The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 24

Once upon a time there lived a respectable young tailor called Labakan, who worked for a clever master in Alexandria.

Who acts: respectable young tailor · What happens: live, call, work · To what, where: respectable young tailor · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (respectable young tailor), 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	10 tailor	det
8	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tailor	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tailor	amod
10	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 tailor	acl
12	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 called	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 worked	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 worked	nsubj
15	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tailor	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 master	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 master	det
18	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 master	amod
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 worked	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 Alexandria	case
21	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 master	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a respectable young tailor	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme tailor=Location
2	call	participle		a respectable young tailor not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	work	past	a respectable young tailor				for a clever master in Alexandria	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for master=Beneficiary

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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