The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

Once upon a time there lived near a forest a man and his wife and two girls; one girl was the daughter of the man, and the other the daughter of his wife; and the man's daughter was good and beautiful, but the woman's daughter was cross and ugly.

Who acts: one girl, daughter · What happens: live, be · To what, where: man, forest, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one girl, daughter), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 forest	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wife	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 girls	cc
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 girls	nummod
17	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wife	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 daughter	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 girl	nummod
20	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 daughter	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 daughter	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 daughter	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 other	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 daughter	amod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 daughter	det
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 wife	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 wife	nmod:poss
35	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 good	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 good	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 man	det
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 daughter	nmod:poss
40	's	's	PART	_	39 man	case
41	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 good	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 good	cop
43	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 beautiful	cc
45	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 good	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 cross	punct
47	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 cross	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 woman	det
49	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 daughter	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 woman	case
51	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 cross	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 cross	cop
53	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 good	parataxis
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 ugly	cc
55	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 cross	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man and man's wife and two girls	a forest; there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near forest=Location
2	is a	past	one girl	the daughter and the other daughter of man's wife			of the man	tree rules
3	is	past	the man's daughter				good property	tree rules
4	be		the man's daughter not said here					tree rules
5	is	past	the woman's daughter				cross property	tree rules
6	be		the woman's daughter not said here					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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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