The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 71

Once upon a time there lived a man who had two sons but they did not get on at all well together, for the younger was much handsomer than his elder brother who was very jealous of him.

Who acts: man, sons, elder brother · What happens: live, have, not get on, be · To what, where: man, two sons, all

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (man, sons, elder brother), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 get	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 get	nsubj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 get	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 get	advmod
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 had	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	17 get	compound:prt
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 get	obl
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 together	advmod
22	together	together	ADV	_	17 get	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 handsomer	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 handsomer	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 handsomer	det
26	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 handsomer	advcl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 handsomer	cop
28	much	much	ADV	_	29 handsomer	advmod
29	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 get	conj
30	than	than	ADP	_	33 brother	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 brother	nmod:poss
32	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 brother	amod
33	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 handsomer	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 jealous	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 jealous	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 jealous	advmod
37	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 brother	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 jealous	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	a man	two sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	not get on	past · do-support	sons = son		all		together property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	sons = son not said here				than man's elder brother; handsome property	tree rules
5	is	past	man's elder brother				of man; jealous property	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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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