The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 1

Once upon a time, far away in the east country, there lived a king who loved hunting so much that, when once there was a deer in sight, he was careless of his own safety.

Who acts: king · What happens: live, love, hunt, be · To what, where: king, deer, sight

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. 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	14 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	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 time	advmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 country	det
10	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 country	compound
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 away	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 lived	expl
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 loved	nsubj
18	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 king	acl:relcl
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 lived	advcl
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADV	_	19 hunting	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 deer	mark
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 was	advmod
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 was	advmod
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 deer	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 deer	det
29	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunting	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 sight	case
31	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deer	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 careless	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 careless	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 careless	cop
35	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lived	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 safety	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 safety	nmod:poss
38	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 safety	amod
39	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 careless	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a king	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	love	past	a king				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
3	hunt	gerund					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		a deer	sight		tree rules
5	is	past	king			of king's own safety; careless property	tree rules

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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