The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 108

There once lived in Denmark a peasant and his wife who owned a very good farm, but had no children.

Who acts: wife · What happens: live, own, have · To what, where: peasant, Denmark, good farm, children

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Denmark	case
5	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 peasant	det
7	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wife	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 peasant	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 owned	nsubj
12	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 wife	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 farm	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 good	advmod
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 farm	amod
16	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 owned	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a peasant and Denmark's wife	Denmark; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location
2	own	past	Denmark's wife	a good farm			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot farm=Theme
3	have	past		no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 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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