The Red Fairy Book, The Six Sillies, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a young girl who reached the age of thirty-seven without ever having had a lover, for she was so foolish that no one wanted to marry her.

Who acts: young girl, girl, one · What happens: be, reach, have, want, marry · To what, where: young girl, age, lover, girl

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl, girl, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 girl	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	9 girl	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 girl	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girl	amod
9	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 girl	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 age	det
13	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reached	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 seven	case
15	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 seven	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 thirty	punct
17	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 age	nmod
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 having	mark
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	20 having	advmod
20	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 reached	advcl
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 having	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lover	det
23	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 foolish	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 foolish	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 foolish	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 foolish	cop
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 foolish	advmod
29	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 had	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 wanted	mark
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wanted	nsubj
33	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 foolish	advcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 marry	mark
35	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 wanted	xcomp
36	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 marry	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 girl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a young girl	time	once property	tree rules
2	reach	past	a young girl	the age of thirty seven			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme
3	have	gerund	a young girl not said here		ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	have	past		a lover			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lover=Patient
5	is	past	girl			foolish property	tree rules
6	want	past	no one				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	no one not said here	girl			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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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