The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 92

Long, long ago, there lived an old man and his wife who had three sons; the eldest was called Martin, the second Michael, while the third was named Jack.

Who acts: Long, wife · What happens: live, have, call, name · To what, where: old man, three sons, eldest, third · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Long, wife), 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	Long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lived	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ago	advmod
4	ago	ago	ADV	_	7 lived	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 lived	expl
7	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lived	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wife	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wife	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sons	nummod
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eldest	det
20	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 called	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 called	aux:pass
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lived	parataxis
23	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Michael	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Michael	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 Michael	amod
27	Michael	Michael	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Martin	appos
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 named	punct
29	while	while	SCONJ	_	33 named	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 third	det
31	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 named	nsubj:pass
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 named	aux:pass
33	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 called	conj
34	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 named	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	Long	a old man and jackal's wife	there	ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	jackal's wife	three sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	call	past · passive		the eldest			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	name	past · passive		the third			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme jack=Attribute

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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