The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a poor laborer who, feeling that he had not much longer to live, wished to divide his possessions between his son and daughter, whom he loved dearly.

Who acts: poor laborer, laborer · What happens: be, feel, have, live, wish, divide · To what, where: possessions

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor laborer, laborer), 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 was	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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 laborer	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 laborer	amod
9	laborer	laborer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 feeling	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feeling	punct
12	feeling	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 laborer	acl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 feeling	advcl
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADV	_	18 longer	advmod
18	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 had	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 live	mark
20	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 longer	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 wished	punct
22	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 feeling	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 divide	mark
24	divide	divide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 wished	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 possessions	nmod:poss
26	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 divide	obj
27	between	between	ADP	_	29 son	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 son	nmod:poss
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 divide	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 daughter	cc
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 son	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 whom	punct
33	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 son	acl:relcl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 loved	nsubj
35	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 whom	acl:relcl
36	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	35 loved	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a poor laborer		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	a poor laborer				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	past	laborer			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	live	to-infinitive	laborer not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wish	participle					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	divide not said to happen	to-infinitive		laborer's possessions		between laborer's son and daughter	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme
7	love	past	laborer			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
8	possess		laborer				nom possession «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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