The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a man who had a meadow which lay on the side of a mountain, and in the meadow there was a barn in which he stored hay.

Who acts: man, meadow, barn · What happens: be, have, lie, store · To what, where: meadow, side, hay, barn

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, meadow, barn), 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	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 meadow	det
12	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 meadow	acl:relcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 side	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 side	det
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountain	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 mountain	det
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 side	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 was	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 meadow	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 meadow	det
25	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	obl
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	parataxis
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 barn	det
29	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 was	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 stored	obl
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 stored	nsubj
33	stored	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 barn	acl:relcl
34	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 stored	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	a meadow			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient
3	lie	past	a meadow		the side of a mountain		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
4	be	past	a barn		the meadow; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meadow=Location
5	store	past	man	hay	a barn		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hay=Theme in which=Location

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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