The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 30

There was once a hard-working student who lived in an attic, and he had nothing in the world of his own.

Who acts: working student, student · What happens: be, work, live, have · To what, where: attic, nothing, world

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (working student, student), 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	8 student	det
5	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 working	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 hard	punct
7	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 student	amod
8	student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 student	acl:relcl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 attic	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 attic	det
13	attic	attic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 nothing	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 own	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 own	nmod:poss
24	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nothing	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a working student		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	work	gerund					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	past	a working student		a attic		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in attic=Location
4	have	past	student	nothing	the world		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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