The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 17

Once upon a time there dwelt in the land of Erin a young man who was seeking a wife, and of all the maidens round about none pleased him as well as the only daughter of a farmer.

Who acts: young man · What happens: dwell, seek · To what, where: young man, land, wife

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 dwelt	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 dwelt	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dwelt	advmod
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Erin	case
11	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 land	nmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dwelt	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 seeking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seeking	aux
17	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 man	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 wife	det
19	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seeking	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 maidens	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 maidens	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 maidens	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 maidens	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maidens	det
25	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dwelt	conj
26	round	round	ADV	_	25 maidens	advmod
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 pleased	case
28	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 pleased	nsubj
29	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 maidens	nmod
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pleased	nsubj
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 daughter	cc
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	as	as	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 daughter	det
35	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 daughter	amod
36	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pleased	conj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 farmer	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 farmer	det
39	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 daughter	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a young man		the land of Erin; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	seek	past · progressive	a young man	a wife					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

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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