The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 108

There was once upon a time a couple of rich folks who had twelve sons, and when the youngest was grown up he would not stay at home any longer, but would go out into the world and seek his fortune.

Who acts: rich folks, DAPPLEGRIM · What happens: be, have, grow up, not stay, go out, seek · To what, where: twelve sons, youngest, home, world, fortune

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 (rich folks, DAPPLEGRIM), 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 couple	det
8	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod:unmarked
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 folks	case
10	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 folks	amod
11	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 couple	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 folks	acl:relcl
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sons	nummod
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grown	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grown	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 grown	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youngest	det
20	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 grown	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grown	aux:pass
22	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 was	ccomp
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 grown	compound:prt
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stay	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stay	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 stay	advmod
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 grown	acl:relcl
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 home	case
29	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stay	obl
30	any	any	ADV	_	31 longer	advmod
31	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 stay	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 go	cc
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stay	conj
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 world	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 world	det
39	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 seek	cc
41	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 go	conj
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 fortune	nmod:poss
43	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 seek	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	tree rules
2	have	past	rich folks	twelve sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	grow up	past · passive		the youngest				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not stay	would	DAPPLEGRIM		home		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
5	go out	would	DAPPLEGRIM not said here		the world		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	seek	infinitive	DAPPLEGRIM not said here	DAPPLEGRIM's fortune				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=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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