The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 2

Once upon a time there lived an old couple who had three sons; the two elder were clever, but the third was a regular dunce.

Who acts: old couple, two elder, third · What happens: live, have, be · To what, where: old couple, three sons, regular dunce

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). 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, two elder, third), 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	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 sons	nummod
13	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 clever	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 elder	det
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 elder	nummod
17	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clever	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 clever	cop
19	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dunce	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 dunce	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 third	det
23	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dunce	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dunce	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dunce	det
26	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dunce	amod
27	dunce	dunce	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clever	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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	three sons				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	is	past	the two elder				clever property	tree rules
4	is a	past	the third	a regular dunce				tree rules

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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