The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a man who lost his wife, and a woman who lost her husband; and the man had a daughter and so had the woman.

Who acts: man, woman · What happens: be, lose, have · To what, where: wife, husband, daughter, woman

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (man, woman), 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 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 woman	det
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lost	nsubj
18	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 woman	acl:relcl
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 husband	nmod:poss
20	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 had	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 daughter	det
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 had	cc
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 had	advmod
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 had	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 woman	det
32	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lose	past	a man	man's wife				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality
3	lose	past	a woman	woman's husband				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Eventuality
4	have	past	a woman	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
5	have	past	a woman not said here	the woman				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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