The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 1

Once upon a time, in a large forest, there lived an old woman and three maidens.

What happens: live · To what, where: old woman

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	12 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	_	9 forest	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 forest	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 forest	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forest	amod
9	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 lived	expl
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 maidens	cc
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 maidens	nummod
18	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 woman	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old woman and three maidens		there		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location

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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