The Blue Fairy Book, The Goose-girl, sentence 1

Once upon a time an old queen, whose husband had been dead for many years, had a beautiful daughter.

Who acts: husband · What happens: be, have · To what, where: beautiful daughter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goose-girl. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband), 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	18 had	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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 queen	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 queen	amod
7	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dead	punct
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dead	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 dead	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 queen	acl:relcl
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 years	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dead	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 daughter	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 daughter	amod
21	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past · perfect	husband				year	dead property	tree rules
2	have	past		a beautiful daughter				once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=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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