The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 15

There was once a king and queen who had a little boy, and they called his name Kilweh.

Who acts: king, queen, boy · What happens: be, have, call, name · To what, where: little boy, name · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, queen, boy), 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	5 king	det
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 queen	cc
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 king	conj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 queen	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boy	det
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 boy	amod
12	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 called	obj
19	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 name	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a king and queen		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	queen	a little boy			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	call	past	king	boy's name			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	name		boy				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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