The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived an old couple who had one son called Martin.
Who acts: old couple · What happens: live, have, call · To what, where: old couple, one son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old couple), 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 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 couple | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 couple | amod |
| 9 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 couple | acl:relcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 son | nummod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 son | acl |
| 15 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 called | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a old couple | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme couple=Location | ||
| 2 | have | past | a old couple | one son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | one son not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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