The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a queen who had been the mother of a great many children, and of them all only one daughter was left.

Who acts: queen · What happens: live, be, leave · To what, where: queen, mother, one daughter

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 mother	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mother	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 mother	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 queen	acl:relcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 children	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 children	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 children	amod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 children	amod
18	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mother	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 left	cc
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 left	obl
23	all	all	ADV	_	28 left	advmod
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 daughter	nummod
26	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lived	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a queen	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme queen=Location
2	is a	past · perfect	a queen	the mother			of a great many children	tree rules
3	leave	past · passive		one daughter			of children = child; all property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of they=Destination

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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