The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1, sentence 55
There was, once upon a time, a widow, who had two daughters.
Who acts: widow · What happens: be, have · To what, where: two daughters
This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, _thomas Bodkin_, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 once | punct |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 once | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 widow | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 widow | det |
| 10 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 widow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 daughters | nummod |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a widow | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a widow | two daughters | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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: «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (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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