The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 107

There was once a king in Ireland, and he had three daughters, and very nice princesses they were.

Who acts: king · What happens: be, have · To what, where: nice princesses, three daughters

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 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 (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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Ireland	case
7	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 king	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 daughters	nummod
13	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 princesses	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 princesses	cc
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 nice	advmod
17	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 princesses	amod
18	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 was	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 were	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 princesses	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king in Ireland	nice princesses		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	king	three daughters					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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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