The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 157

There was once a pretty little fir-tree in a wood.

Who acts: pretty little fir tree · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty little fir tree), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tree	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
7	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 fir	punct
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tree	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a pretty little fir tree in a wood			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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