The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 106

Once upon a time there lived a young king whose name was Souci, and he had been brought up, ever since he was a baby, by the fairy Inconstancy.

Who acts: name, king, Souci · What happens: live, be, bring up, name · To what, where: young king, Souci, king, baby

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, king, Souci), 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 lived	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	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 king	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 king	amod
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Souci	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Souci	cop
13	Souci	Souci	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 king	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 brought	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 brought	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brought	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 brought	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 brought	aux:pass
19	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lived	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 brought	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 baby	punct
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 baby	advmod
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	27 baby	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 baby	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 baby	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 baby	det
27	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fairy	punct
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 fairy	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fairy	det
31	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 baby	conj
32	Inconstancy	Inconstancy	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 fairy	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a young king	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	is a	past	Souci's name	Souci				tree rules
3	bring up	past · perfect · passive		king				vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
4	is a	past	king	a baby and the fairy		ever		tree rules
5	name		Souci					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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