The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 107

Once upon a time there lived a Fairy who had power over the earth, the sea, fire, and the air; and this Fairy had four sons.

Who acts: Fairy · What happens: live, have · To what, where: Fairy, power, earth, four sons

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy), 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	8 Fairy	det
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Fairy	acl:relcl
11	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 had	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sea	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earth	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fire	punct
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 earth	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 air	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 air	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 air	det
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 Fairy	det
27	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
29	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 sons	nummod
30	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a Fairy	there	time	the air obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fairy=Location
2	have	past	a Fairy	power	the earth and the sea and fire			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
3	have	past	this Fairy	four sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 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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