The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 68

Long ago there lived a rich merchant who, besides possessing more treasures than any king in the world, had in his great hall three chairs, one of silver, one of gold, and one of diamonds.

Who acts: rich merchant · What happens: live, possess, have · To what, where: rich merchant, more treasures, three chairs, great hall

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich merchant), 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	Long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ago	advmod
2	ago	ago	ADV	_	4 lived	advmod
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lived	advmod
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 merchant	det
6	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 merchant	amod
7	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 possessing	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 possessing	punct
10	besides	besides	ADP	_	11 possessing	mark
11	possessing	possess	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 merchant	acl:relcl
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 treasures	amod
13	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 possessing	obj
14	than	than	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 possessing	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 king	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 hall	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hall	nmod:poss
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hall	amod
25	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obl
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 chairs	nummod
27	chairs	chair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 had	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 one	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 chairs	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 silver	case
31	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 one	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 one	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 gold	case
35	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 one	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 one	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 one	cc
38	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lived	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 diamonds	case
40	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 one	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a rich merchant	there	one of diamonds obl; ago property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location
2	possess	gerund	a rich merchant	more treasures		than any king in the world	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme
3	have	past		three chairs	King's great hall		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=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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