The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen whose children had all died, first one and then another, until at last only one little daughter remained, and the Queen was at her wits’ end to know where to find a really good nurse who would take care of her, and bring her up.

Who acts: children, Queen, good nurse · What happens: live, die, remain, be, know, find · To what, where: King, last one little daughter, end, good nurse, care, Queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, Queen, good nurse), 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	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	12 children	nmod:poss
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 died	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 died	aux
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 died	advmod
15	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 lived	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 one	punct
17	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 one	advmod
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 lived	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 another	cc
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 another	advmod
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	18 one	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 daughter	punct
23	until	until	ADP	_	29 daughter	case
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 last	case
25	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daughter	amod
26	only	only	ADV	_	27 one	advmod
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 daughter	nummod
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 daughter	amod
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
30	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 daughter	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 end	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 end	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Queen	det
34	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 end	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 end	cop
36	at	at	ADP	_	40 end	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 wits	nmod:poss
38	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 end	nmod:poss
39	’	's	PART	_	38 wits	case
40	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 know	mark
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 end	acl
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 find	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 find	mark
45	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 know	ccomp
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 nurse	det
47	really	really	ADV	_	48 good	advmod
48	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 nurse	amod
49	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 find	obj
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 take	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 take	aux
52	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 nurse	acl:relcl
53	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 take	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 her	case
55	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 take	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 bring	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 bring	cc
58	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lived	conj
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 bring	obj
60	up	up	ADP	_	58 bring	compound:prt
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King and Queen	there	until last one little daughter; time	one obl; once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	past · perfect	children				all property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	remain	participle		last one little daughter not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the Queen			at Queen's wits's end		tree rules
5	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	find	to-infinitive		a good nurse				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nurse=Topic
7	take	would	a good nurse	care			of Queen	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of she=Initial_Location
8	bring up	infinitive		Queen				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: 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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