Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 1

There was once a king’s son who had a bride whom he loved very much.

Who acts: son · What happens: be, have, love · To what, where: bride

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 king	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bride	det
11	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 loved	obj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 loved	nsubj
14	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bride	acl:relcl
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	14 loved	advmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king's son		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a king's son	a bride			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Patient
3	love	past	son	a bride			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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