The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 1

My father had a small estate in Nottinghamshire, and I was the third of four sons.

Who acts: father, I · What happens: have, be · To what, where: small estate, Nottinghamshire, third

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, I), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 estate	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 estate	amod
6	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Nottinghamshire	case
8	Nottinghamshire	Nottinghamshire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 third	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 third	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 third	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 third	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 third	det
14	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sons	case
16	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sons	nummod
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 third	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	My father	a small estate		Nottinghamshire			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent estate=Patient
2	is a	past	I	the third				of four sons	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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