Grimms' Fairy Tales, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 1

There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage.

Who acts: poor widow · What happens: be, live · To what, where: lonely cottage

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor widow), 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	6 widow	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 widow	amod
6	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 widow	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 cottage	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cottage	det
11	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cottage	amod
12	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a poor widow			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a poor widow			a lonely cottage			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location

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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