The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 35

Once, upon a time there was a man and his wife who had two children, a boy and a girl.

Who acts: man, wife · What happens: be, have · To what, where: two children

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, wife), 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	7 was	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	5 time	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wife	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wife	nmod:poss
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wife	acl:relcl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 children	nummod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 girl	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 girl	det
22	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a man and Maiden's wife and a boy and a girl			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Maiden's wife	two children					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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