Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Golden Slipper, sentence 1

There was once upon a time an old man and an old woman, and the old man had a daughter, and the old woman had a daughter.

Who acts: old man, old woman · What happens: be, have · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Golden Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, old woman), 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	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 woman	cc
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 woman	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 woman	amod
13	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 daughter	det
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 had	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 woman	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 woman	amod
26	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 had	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 daughter	det
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	the old man	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	have	past	the old woman	a daughter				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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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