The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 71

Once upon a time there lived a poor knight who had a great many children, and found it very hard to get enough for them to eat.

Who acts: poor knight, Coward, children · What happens: live, have, find, get, eat · To what, where: poor knight, great many children, Coward, enough

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (poor knight, Coward, children), 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	9 knight	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 knight	amod
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 knight	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 children	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 children	amod
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	obj
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 hard	advmod
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 found	xcomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 get	mark
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hard	xcomp
24	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 get	obj
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 eat	mark
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 eat	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor knight	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme knight=Location
2	have	past	a poor knight	a great many children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	find	past		Coward			hard property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive	Coward not said here	enough				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus
5	eat	to-infinitive	children = child					vn eat-39.1-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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