The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 98

Once upon a time there were seven brothers, who were orphans, and had no sister.

Who acts: seven brothers · What happens: be, have · To what, where: orphans, sister

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven brothers), 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 were	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 orphans	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 orphans	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 orphans	cop
12	orphans	orphan	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brothers	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 had	cc
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 were	conj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 sister	det
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	seven brothers and orphans		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	seven brothers and orphans	orphans			tree rules
3	have	past	seven brothers and orphans not said here	no sister			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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