Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Fisherman and His Wife, sentence 1

There was once a fisherman who lived with his wife in a pigsty, close by the seaside.

Who acts: fisherman · What happens: be, live · To what, where: pigsty

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 fisherman	det
5	fisherman	fisherman	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 fisherman	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wife	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pigsty	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pigsty	det
13	pigsty	pigsty	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 close	punct
15	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pigsty	amod
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 seaside	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 seaside	det
18	seaside	seaside	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 close	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fisherman			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a fisherman			a pigsty		with fisherman's wife	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with wife=Location

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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