The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a man whose one wish and prayer was to get rich.
Who acts: one wish · What happens: live, be · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one wish), 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 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 wish | nmod:poss |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 wish | nummod |
| 11 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prayer | cc |
| 13 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wish | conj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 get | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 get | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | one wish and prayer | a man not said here | get, rich 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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