Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Serpent-wife, sentence 1

There was once a gentleman who had a labourer who never went about in company.

Who acts: gentleman, labourer · What happens: be, have, not go about · To what, where: labourer, company

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Serpent-wife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, labourer), 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	5 gentleman	det
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gentleman	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 labourer	det
9	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 went	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 labourer	acl:relcl
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 company	case
15	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a gentleman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a gentleman	a labourer			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent labourer=Patient
3	not go about	past	a labourer		company	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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