Grimms' Fairy Tales, Frederick and Catherine, sentence 1

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married.

Who acts: man, name, Catherine · What happens: be, call, have, not marry, name · To what, where: man, wife, Catherine, they · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Frederick and Catherine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, name, Catherine), 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 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 man	acl
7	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 had	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	14 name	nmod:poss
14	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Catherine	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 Catherine	cop
16	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 wife	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 married	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 married	cc
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 married	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 married	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 married	advmod
22	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 married	advmod
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 married	aux:pass
24	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 had	conj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		a man not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	man	a wife			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	is a	past	Catherine's name	Catherine			tree rules
5	not marry	past · perfect · passive		they		long property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	name		Catherine				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «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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