The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a poor old man whose name was Wali Dâd Gunjay, or Wali Dâd the Bald.

Who acts: name, Wali · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: poor old man, Wali

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Wali), 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	10 man	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
11	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 name	nmod:poss
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Wali	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 Wali	cop
14	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
15	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wali	flat
16	Gunjay	Gunjay	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Wali	flat
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Bald	punct
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 Bald	cc
19	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Dâd	compound
20	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Bald	compound
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Bald	det
22	Bald	Bald	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor old man	there	time	the Dâd Bald obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	is a	past	Wali's name	Wali				tree rules
3	name		Wali					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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