Grimms' Fairy Tales, Mother Holle, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was beautiful and industrious, the other ugly and lazy.

Who acts: widow, one · What happens: be, have · To what, where: two daughters

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Mother Holle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, one), 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 was	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 widow	det
8	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 widow	acl:relcl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 daughters	nummod
12	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 beautiful	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 beautiful	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 beautiful	cop
18	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 was	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 industrious	cc
20	industrious	industrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beautiful	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ugly	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ugly	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ugly	amod
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beautiful	conj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lazy	cc
26	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ugly	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a widow		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a widow	two daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	past	one of daughters			beautiful property	tree rules
4	be		one of daughters not said here				tree rules
5	be		one of daughters not said here				tree rules

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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