Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster, sentence 1

There was once a regular student, who lived in a garret, and had no possessions.

Who acts: regular student · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: garret, possessions

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Goblin and the Huckster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (regular student), 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 student	det
5	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 student	amod
6	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 student	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 garret	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 garret	det
12	garret	garret	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 possessions	det
17	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a regular student		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a regular student		a garret		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garret=Location
3	have	past		no possessions			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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