The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 29

Once upon a time there lived in Japan a rat and his wife who came of an old and noble race, and had one daughter, the loveliest girl in all the rat world.

Who acts: wife · What happens: live, come, have · To what, where: rat, Japan, one daughter

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	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	in	in	ADP	_	8 Japan	case
8	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rat	det
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
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 rat	conj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 wife	acl:relcl
16	of	of	ADP	_	21 race	case
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 race	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 race	amod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 noble	cc
20	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 old	conj
21	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 daughter	nummod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 girl	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 daughter	appos
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 world	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 world	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 world	det
34	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 world	compound
35	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 girl	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a rat and Japan's wife	Japan; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in japan=Location
2	come	past	Japan's wife				of a old race	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of race=Initial_Location
3	have	past		one 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 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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