The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 34

There was once a little boy whose name was Lars, and because he was so little he was called Little Lasse; he was a brave little man, for he sailed round the world in a pea-shell boat.

Who acts: little boy, name, boy, man, Lars · What happens: be, call, sail, name · To what, where: Lars, little, brave little man, shell boat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, name, boy, man), 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	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 name	nmod:poss
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Lars	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Lars	cop
10	Lars	Lar	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 boy	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 called	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 called	cc
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	17 little	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 little	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 little	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 little	advmod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 called	nsubj:pass
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 called	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 called	aux:pass
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Lars	acl
21	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Lasse	amod
22	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 called	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 man	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 man	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 man	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 man	det
27	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 man	amod
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sailed	punct
31	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 sailed	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sailed	nsubj
33	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 man	acl:relcl
34	round	round	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sailed	obl
37	in	in	ADP	_	42 boat	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 boat	det
39	pea	pea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 shell	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 pea	punct
41	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 boat	compound
42	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sailed	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a little boy		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Lars's name	Lars			tree rules
3	is	past	boy			little property	tree rules
4	call	past · passive		little			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
5	is a	past	boy	a brave little man			tree rules
6	sail	past	man	a brave little man not said here	a shell boat	round the world	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme round world=Trajectory
7	name		Lars				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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