The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 2

Once upon a time, in the reign of King Cambrinus, there lived at Avesnes one of his lords, who was the finest man—by which I mean the fattest—in the whole country of Flanders.

Who acts: lords, I · What happens: live, be, mean · To what, where: one, finest man, fattest

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lords, I), 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	14 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	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reign	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 reign	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 reign	det
8	reign	reign	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 King	case
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 reign	nmod
11	Cambrinus	Cambrinus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 King	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 lived	expl
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 Avesnes	case
16	Avesnes	Avesne	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 one	obl
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lived	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 lords	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 lords	nmod:poss
20	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 man	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 man	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 man	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lords	acl
27	—	-	PUNCT	_	31 mean	punct
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 mean	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 mean	nsubj
31	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 lived	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fattest	det
33	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 mean	obj
34	—	-	PUNCT	_	38 country	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 country	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 country	det
37	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 country	amod
38	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mean	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Flanders	case
40	Flanders	flander	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 country	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		one of King's lords	there	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	King's lords	the finest man			tree rules
3	mean	present	I	the fattest		in the whole country of Flanders	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot fat=Theme in country=Attribute

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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