The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 2
Once upon a time there was a peasant whose wife died, leaving him with two children--twins--a boy and a girl.
Who acts: peasant, wife · What happens: be, die, leave · To what, where: peasant
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peasant, wife), 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 was | 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 peasant | det |
| 8 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 peasant | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 leaving | punct |
| 13 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 died | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leaving | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 children | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 children | nummod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 leaving | obl |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 twins | punct |
| 19 | twins | twin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 children | conj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 boy | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 children | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 girl | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boy | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a peasant | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | past | wife | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | wife not said here | peasant | with two children and twins and a boy and a girl | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with 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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