Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 1

There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, call · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 called	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 called	aux:pass
12	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 daughter	acl:relcl
13	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Elsie	compound
14	Elsie	Elsie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 called	xcomp
15	.	.	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	have	past	a man	a daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	call	past · passive		a daughter			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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