The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 1

ONCE upon a time there lived a king who was so just and kind that his subjects called him “the Good King.”

Who acts: king, subjects · What happens: live, be, call · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, subjects), 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 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	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kind	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 kind	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 kind	advmod
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 kind	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kind	cc
14	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	ccomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 called	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 subjects	nmod:poss
17	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 called	nsubj
18	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 kind	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 called	obj
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 King	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
22	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 King	amod
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a king				kind property	tree rules
3	call	past	king's subjects	king				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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