The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 10

There was once a man who had three sons, and no other possessions beyond the house in which he lived.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, have, live · To what, where: three sons, house

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 sons	nummod
9	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 had	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 possessions	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 possessions	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 possessions	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 possessions	amod
14	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sons	conj
15	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	17 house	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 possessions	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lived	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 lived	nsubj
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 house	acl:relcl
22	.	.	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	three sons and no other possessions beyond the house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	live	past	man		the house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/8/10/