The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 3

There was once a man who had a son who was very clever at reading, and took great delight in it.

Who acts: man, son · What happens: be, have, take · To what, where: son, reading, great delight, delight

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, son), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 son	det
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 clever	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 clever	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 clever	advmod
13	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 son	acl:relcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 reading	case
15	reading	reading	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 clever	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 took	cc
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 delight	amod
20	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	obl
23	.	.	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	a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	a son		reading	clever property	tree rules
4	take	past		great delight	delight		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in it=Location

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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