The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 92

There was once a man who had three daughters, and they were all married to trolls, who lived underground.

Who acts: man, trolls · What happens: be, have, marry, live · To what, where: three daughters, daughters

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, trolls), 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	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 daughters	nummod
9	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 married	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 married	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 married	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 married	aux:pass
14	all	all	ADV	_	15 married	advmod
15	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 trolls	case
17	trolls	troll	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 married	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lived	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 lived	nsubj
20	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 trolls	acl:relcl
21	underground	underground	ADV	_	20 lived	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man	three daughters			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	marry	past · passive		daughters = daughter		to trolls; all property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to troll=Co-Patient
4	live	past	trolls			underground property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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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