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The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who had two beautiful sons and one little daughter, who was so pretty that no one who saw her could help loving her.

Who acts: two beautiful sons, one · What happens: live, have, be, see, help, love · To what, where: King, two beautiful sons, Queen

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two beautiful sons, one), 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

advmodcasedetobladvmoddetoblccconjnsubjconjnummodamodobjccnummodamodconjpunctnsubjcopadvmodparataxismarkdetnsubjnsubjacl:relclobjauxadvclxcompobjpunctrootOnceADVuponADPaDETtimeNOUNthereADVlivedVERBaDETKingPROPNandCCONJQueenPROPNwhoPRONhadVERBtwoNUMbeautifulADJsonsNOUNandCCONJoneNUMlittleADJdaughterNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXsoADVprettyADJthatSCONJnoDEToneNOUNwhoPRONsawVERBherPRONcouldAUXhelpVERBlovingVERBherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult6 livedadvmod
2uponuponADP_4 timecase
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 timedet
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing6 livedobl
5therethereADVPronType=Dem6 livedadvmod
6livedliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art8 Kingdet
8KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing6 livedobl
9andandCCONJ_10 Queencc
10QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing8 Kingconj
11whowhoPRONPronType=Rel12 hadnsubj
12hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 livedconj
13twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 sonsnummod
14beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos15 sonsamod
15sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur12 hadobj
16andandCCONJ_19 daughtercc
17oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card19 daughternummod
18littlelittleADJDegree=Pos19 daughteramod
19daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing15 sonsconj
20,,PUNCT_24 prettypunct
21whowhoPRONPronType=Rel24 prettynsubj
22wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 prettycop
23sosoADV_24 prettyadvmod
24prettyprettyADJDegree=Pos15 sonsparataxis
25thatthatSCONJ_32 helpmark
26nonoDETPronType=Neg27 onedet
27oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing32 helpnsubj
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel29 sawnsubj
29sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 oneacl:relcl
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 sawobj
31couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin32 helpaux
32helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf24 prettyadvcl
33lovingloveVERBVerbForm=Ger32 helpxcomp
34hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 lovingobj
35..PUNCT_6 livedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepasta King and Queentheretimeonce propertyvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2havepasttwo beautiful sons and one little daughtervn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3ispasttwo beautiful sons and one little daughterpretty propertytree rules
4seepastno oneQueenvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5helpcouldno onevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6lovegerundno one not said hereQueenvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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