The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 24, sentence 109

Once upon a time there lived, on the bank of a stream, a man and a woman who had a daughter.

Who acts: woman · What happens: live, have · To what, where: bank, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bank	punct
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 bank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bank	det
10	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bank	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 woman	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 woman	det
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stream	conj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 woman	acl:relcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 daughter	det
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past				the bank of a stream and a man and a woman; there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location
2	have	past	a woman	a daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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