The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 85

Once upon a time there lived a peasant called Ivan, and he had a wife whose name was Marie.

Who acts: peasant, name, Marie · What happens: live, call, have, be, name · To what, where: peasant, wife, Marie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, name, Marie), 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 peasant	det
8	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 peasant	acl
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 had	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	18 name	nmod:poss
18	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 Marie	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 Marie	cop
20	Marie	Marie	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 wife	appos
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a peasant	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme peasant=Location
2	call	participle		a peasant not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	peasant	a wife				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
4	is a	past	Marie's name	Marie				tree rules
5	name		Marie					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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