The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 1

There were once upon a time a King and a Queen who lived happily together, and they had twelve children, all of whom were boys.

Who acts: time, King, all · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: twelve children, boys

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, King, all), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	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 were	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Queen	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lived	nsubj
13	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	acl:relcl
14	happily	happily	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
15	together	together	ADV	_	13 lived	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
20	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nummod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 boys	punct
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 boys	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 whom	case
25	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 all	nmod
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 boys	cop
27	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 children	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	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	live	past	a time				happily, together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	King	twelve children and boys				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
4	is a	past	all	boys				tree rules

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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