Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 52

There was once upon a time a man who had three sons, and two were clever, but the third, called Ivan, was a fool.

Who acts: fool, man, two · What happens: be, have, call · To what, where: three sons, fool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fool, man, two), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clever	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 clever	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 clever	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clever	cop
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sons	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 third	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 third	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 third	det
21	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 clever	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 third	conj
24	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fool	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 fool	cop
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 fool	det
28	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a fool		there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	two				clever property	tree rules
4	be		two not said here					tree rules
5	call	participle	two not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		a fool				tree rules

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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