The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 3

There was once upon a time a man and woman who had three fine-looking sons, but they were so poor that they had hardly enough food for themselves, let alone their children.

Who acts: man, sons · What happens: be, have, look, let · To what, where: three looking sons, enough food, children

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, sons), 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	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 woman	cc
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 man	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 sons	nummod
14	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 looking	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 fine	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 sons	amod
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 had	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 poor	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 poor	cc
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 poor	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poor	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 poor	advmod
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 poor	advcl
27	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 enough	advmod
28	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 food	amod
29	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 had	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 let	punct
33	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 had	conj
34	alone	alone	ADV	_	33 let	advmod
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 children	nmod:poss
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 let	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a man and woman	three looking sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	look	gerund						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	sons = son				poor property	tree rules
5	have	past	sons = son	enough food			for sons = son	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
6	let	infinitive	sons = son not said here	sons's children			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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