The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 34
There was once a merchant who lived close to the royal palace, and had three daughters.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: three daughters
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 lived | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 palace | amod |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 daughters | nummod |
| 17 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a merchant | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | past | a merchant | to the royal palace; close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | three daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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