The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a fisherman, who lived hard by a palace and fished for the King’s table.
Who acts: fisherman · What happens: be, live, fish
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fisherman | det |
| 8 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 lived | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fished | cc |
| 17 | fished | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lived | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 table | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 table | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fished | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a fisherman | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | live | past | a fisherman | by a palace; hard property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by palace=Location | ||||
| 3 | fish | past | a fisherman not said here | for the King's table | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for table=Theme |
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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