Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Seven Ravens, sentence 1

There was once a man who had seven sons, and last of all one daughter.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: seven sons

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Seven Ravens. 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	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sons	nummod
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 last	cc
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 daughter	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 daughter	det
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 daughter	nummod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 last	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	seven sons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient

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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