The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters; one of them was pretty and clever, and the other ugly and lazy.

Who acts: widow, one · What happens: have, be · To what, where: two daughters

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (widow, one), 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 was	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	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 clever	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 widow	det
8	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 widow	acl:relcl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 daughters	nummod
12	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 clever	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 clever	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 one	nmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 clever	cop
18	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	20 clever	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 clever	cc
20	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ugly	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ugly	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 other	det
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ugly	amod
25	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 clever	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lazy	cc
27	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ugly	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a widow	two daughters		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past	one of daughters		clever, pretty property	tree rules
3	be		one of daughters not said here			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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