Grimms' Fairy Tales, The King of the Golden Mountain, sentence 1

There was once a merchant who had only one child, a son, that was very young, and barely able to run alone.

Who acts: merchant, that · What happens: be, have, run · To what, where: one child

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The King of the Golden Mountain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, that), 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 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	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 merchant	acl:relcl
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 one	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 child	nummod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 son	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 child	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 young	punct
15	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 young	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 young	cop
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 young	advmod
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 son	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 able	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 able	cc
21	barely	barely	ADV	_	22 able	advmod
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 young	conj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 run	mark
24	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	24 run	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a merchant		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a merchant	one child and a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	is	past	that			young property	tree rules
4	be		that not said here			barely property	tree rules
5	run	to-infinitive	that not said here			alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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