The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 54

There was once upon a time a poor boy who had neither father nor mother.

Who acts: poor boy · What happens: be, have · To what, where: father

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 (poor boy), 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	9 boy	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 boy	amod
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 boy	acl:relcl
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 father	cc:preconj
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 mother	cc
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to 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 poor boy	father nor mother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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