The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 67

Once upon a time there lived an old cobbler who worked hard at his trade from morning till night, and scarcely gave himself a moment to eat.

Who acts: old cobbler, cobbler · What happens: live, work, give, eat, trade · To what, where: old cobbler, cobbler

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old cobbler, cobbler), 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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cobbler	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cobbler	amod
9	cobbler	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 worked	nsubj
11	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cobbler	acl:relcl
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 worked	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 trade	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trade	nmod:poss
15	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 morning	case
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
18	till	till	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 worked	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
22	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	23 gave	advmod
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 gave	iobj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 moment	det
26	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 eat	mark
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 moment	acl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old cobbler		there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme cobbler=Location
2	work	past	a old cobbler				morning; night	at cobbler's trade; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at trade=Theme
3	give	past			cobbler		moment	scarcely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	trade		cobbler						nom trade «act 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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