The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who loved each other so much that they were never happy unless they were together.
Who acts: King · What happens: live, love, not be, be · To what, where: King, each
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 happy | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 much | advcl |
| 22 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 25 together | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 together | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 together | cop |
| 25 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King and Queen | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | love | past | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | King | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | King | together property | 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 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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