The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 83

Once there lived a farmer who had three daughters, and good useful girls they were, up with the sun, and doing all the work of the house.

Who acts: farmer, good useful girls, house · What happens: live, have, be, do, work · To what, where: farmer, three daughters, work

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 (farmer, good useful girls, house), 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	SCONJ	_	3 lived	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 farmer	det
5	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 farmer	acl:relcl
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sun	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sun	cc
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girls	amod
13	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girls	amod
14	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sun	nsubj
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sun	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sun	cop
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sun	punct
18	up	up	ADV	_	21 sun	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 sun	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 doing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 doing	cc
24	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lived	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 work	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 work	det
27	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 doing	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 work	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a farmer	there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme farmer=Location
2	have	past	a farmer	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	past	good useful girls			with the sun	tree rules
4	do	gerund		all work of the house			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	work		the house				nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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