The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 30

Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who loved each other dearly, and would have been perfectly happy if they had only had a little son or daughter to play with.

Who acts: queen, king · What happens: live, love, be, have, play · To what, where: king, each, little son

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, king), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 queen	cc
10	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loved	nsubj
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 queen	acl:relcl
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	12 loved	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 dearly	amod
15	dearly	dearly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	acl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 happy	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 happy	cc
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 happy	aux
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 happy	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 happy	cop
21	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	22 happy	advmod
22	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	parataxis
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 had	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 had	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 had	aux
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 had	advmod
27	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 happy	advcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 son	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 son	amod
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 had	obj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 daughter	cc
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 play	mark
34	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 son	acl
35	with	with	ADP	_	34 play	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a king and queen	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	love	past	queen	each				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	is	would · perfect					happy, perfectly property	tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	king	a little son or daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	play	to-infinitive	king not said here	a little son or daughter not said here				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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