The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 1
There was once on a time a widower who had a son and a daughter by his first wife.
Who acts: widower · What happens: be, have · To what, where: son
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widower), 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 | on | on | 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 widower | det |
| 8 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 widower | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 daughter | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 daughter | det |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 wife | amod |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a widower | a son and a daughter | by widower's first wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
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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