The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 2

Once upon a time there lived at Quesnoy, in Flanders, a great lord whose name was Burchard, but whom the country people called Burchard the Wolf.

Who acts: great lord, country people, Flanders Burchard · What happens: live, be, call, name · To what, where: Quesnoy, Flanders Burchard · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great lord, country people, Flanders Burchard), 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	at	at	ADP	_	8 Quesnoy	case
8	Quesnoy	Quesnoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Flanders	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 Flanders	case
11	Flanders	Flander	PROPN	Number=Plur	19 Burchard	compound
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lord	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 lord	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lord	amod
15	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Burchard	nsubj
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 name	nmod:poss
17	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Burchard	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 Burchard	cop
19	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 called	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 called	cc
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 called	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 people	det
24	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 people	compound
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 called	nsubj
26	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
27	Burchard	Burchard	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Wolf	det
29	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 called	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			Quesnoy; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at quesnoy=Location
2	is a	past	a great lord	Flanders Burchard				tree rules
3	call	past	the country people					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
4	name		Flanders Burchard					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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