The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 6

Once upon a time there lived in a little village in the very middle of France a widow and her only son, a boy about fifteen, whose name was Antoine, though no one ever called him anything but Toueno-Boueno.

Who acts: name, Antoine · What happens: live, be, call, name · To what, where: widow, little village, Antoine, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, Antoine), 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	_	10 village	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 village	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 village	amod
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 middle	advmod
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 village	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 France	case
16	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 widow	det
18	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 son	cc
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 son	nmod:poss
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 son	advmod
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 boy	punct
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	appos
26	about	about	ADP	_	27 fifteen	case
27	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 boy	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 Antoine	punct
29	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 Antoine	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Antoine	cop
32	Antoine	Antoine	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 boy	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 called	punct
34	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 called	mark
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 one	det
36	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 called	obj
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 called	advmod
38	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 called	obj
40	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	38 called	xcomp
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 Toueno	cc
42	Toueno	Toueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 anything	appos
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 Boueno	punct
44	Boueno	Boueno	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Toueno	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a widow	a little village in the middle of France; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme widow=Location
2	is a	past	Antoine's name	Antoine				tree rules
3	call	past		no one		ever		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme he=Result
4	name		Antoine					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 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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