The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 15

There was once a man whose name was Don Giovanni de la Fortuna, and he lived in a beautiful house that his father had built, and spent a great deal of money.

Who acts: man, Don · What happens: be, live, build, spend, name, deal · To what, where: Don, beautiful house, great deal, money

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Don), 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	9 Don	nsubj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Don	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Don	cop
9	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
10	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Don	flat
11	de	de	X	Foreign=Yes	9 Don	flat:foreign
12	la	la	X	Foreign=Yes	9 Don	appos
13	Fortuna	Fortuna	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 la	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lived	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 lived	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lived	nsubj
17	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 house	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 house	det
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 house	amod
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lived	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 built	nsubj:pass
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 father	nmod:poss
24	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 built	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 built	aux
26	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 house	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spent	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 spent	cc
29	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lived	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 deal	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 deal	amod
32	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 spent	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 money	case
34	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 deal	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a man	Don			tree rules
3	live	past	Don		a beautiful house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
4	build	past · perfect · passive		a beautiful house			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
5	spend	past	Don not said here	a great deal of money			vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Asset
6	name		Don				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	deal			money			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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