The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a poor husbandman who had many children and little to give them in the way either of food or clothing.

Who acts: poor husbandman · What happens: be, have, give · To what, where: many children, children, way

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor husbandman), 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 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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 husbandman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 husbandman	amod
9	husbandman	husbandman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 husbandman	acl:relcl
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	amod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 little	cc
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 children	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 give	mark
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 way	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obl
22	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 way	advmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 food	case
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 way	nmod
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 clothing	cc
26	clothing	clothing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 food	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a poor husbandman			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a poor husbandman	many children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	give	to-infinitive	a poor husbandman not said here		children = child	the way of food or clothing		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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