The Blue Fairy Book, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper, sentence 1

Once there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: be, marry, see · To what, where: proudest haughty woman

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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 was	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gentleman	det
5	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 married	nsubj
7	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gentleman	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 wife	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 wife	amod
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 married	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 woman	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 woman	det
15	proudest	proud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 woman	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 woman	cc
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 haughty	advmod
18	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 woman	amod
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	appos
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 seen	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux:pass
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	23 seen	advmod
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 woman	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a gentleman		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	past	a gentleman				for gentleman's second wife	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	see	past · passive		the proudest haughty woman		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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