The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time, in a very far-off country, there lived a merchant who had been so fortunate in all his undertakings that he was enormously rich.

Who acts: merchant, he, his · What happens: live, be, undertake · To what, where: merchant, undertakings

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchant, he, his), 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	15 lived	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	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	12 country	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 country	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 country	advmod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 far	punct
11	off	off	ADP	_	12 country	case
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 lived	expl
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 merchant	det
17	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 fortunate	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fortunate	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fortunate	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 fortunate	advmod
22	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 merchant	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 undertakings	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 undertakings	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 undertakings	nmod:poss
26	undertakings	undertaking	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fortunate	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 rich	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rich	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 rich	cop
30	enormously	enormously	ADV	_	31 rich	advmod
31	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fortunate	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a merchant	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location
2	is	past · perfect	a merchant		his undertakings	fortunate property	tree rules
3	is	past	he			enormously, rich property	tree rules
4	undertake		his = he				nom undertaking «act 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 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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