The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 21

Once upon a time there was king who, one day out hunting, came upon a fakeer in a lonely place in the mountains.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, hunt, come · To what, where: fakeer

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 was	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 day	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl:unmarked
12	out	out	ADV	_	11 day	advmod
13	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 came	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunting	punct
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 king	acl:relcl
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 fakeer	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fakeer	det
18	fakeer	fakeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 place	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 place	det
21	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fakeer	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 mountains	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mountains	det
25	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 place	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	king	there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	gerund	king not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	king	a fakeer in a lonely place in the mountains	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon fakeer=Location

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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