The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time--in the days when the fairies lived--there was a king who had three daughters, who were all young, and clever, and beautiful; but the youngest of the three, who was called Miranda, was the prettiest and the most beloved.

Who acts: fairies, king, three daughters, youngest · What happens: live, have, be, call · To what, where: three daughters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (fairies, king, three daughters, youngest), 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 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	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 days	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 days	det
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 time	appos
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 lived	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairies	det
11	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 days	acl:relcl
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 was	expl
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 youngest	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 was	nsubj
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 king	acl:relcl
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 daughters	nummod
21	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 young	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 young	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 young	cop
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 young	advmod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daughters	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clever	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clever	cc
29	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 young	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 beautiful	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 beautiful	cc
32	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 clever	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 youngest	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 youngest	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 youngest	det
36	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	48 prettiest	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 three	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 three	det
39	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 youngest	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 called	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 called	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 called	aux:pass
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 youngest	parataxis
44	Miranda	Miranda	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 called	xcomp
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 youngest	punct
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 prettiest	cop
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 prettiest	det
48	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 beloved	cc
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 beloved	det
51	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	52 beloved	advmod
52	beloved	beloved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 prettiest	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 prettiest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	live	past	the fairies			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a king	three daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	is	past	three daughters		all, young property	tree rules
4	be		three daughters not said here			tree rules
5	is	past			of the three; young property	tree rules
6	call	past · passive				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
7	is	past	the youngest		pretty property	tree rules
8	be		the youngest not said here			tree rules

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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