The Blue Fairy Book, Little Thumb, sentence 1

There was, once upon a time, a man and his wife fagot-makers by trade, who had several children, all boys.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: several children

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 once	punct
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 once	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 makers	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 makers	nmod:poss
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makers	compound
14	fagot	fagot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 makers	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fagot	punct
16	makers	maker	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 man	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 trade	case
18	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
22	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 children	amod
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 boys	punct
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 boys	det
26	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 children	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man by trade and his wife fagot makers			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man by trade and his wife fagot makers	several children and all boys					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient

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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