The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 82

There was once a rich old man who had two sons, and as his wife was dead, the elder lived with him, and helped him to look after his property.

Who acts: rich old man, wife, elder · What happens: be, have, live, help, look · To what, where: two sons, elder

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old man, wife, elder), 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	7 man	det
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sons	nummod
11	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 lived	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 lived	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 dead	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wife	nmod:poss
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dead	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dead	cop
18	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lived	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dead	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 elder	det
21	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lived	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 helped	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 helped	cc
27	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lived	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 helped	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 helped	xcomp
31	after	after	ADP	_	33 property	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 property	nmod:poss
33	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 look	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a rich old man		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a rich old man	two sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	Ireland's wife				dead property	tree rules
4	live	past	the elder				with Ireland	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
5	help	past	the elder not said here	elder				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
6	look	to-infinitive	elder not said here			after elder's property		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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