The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 2

Once upon a time there were a King and a Queen who had an only daughter, called Hadvor, who was fair and beautiful, and being an only child, was heir to the kingdom.

Who acts: King, Hadvor · What happens: have, call, be · To what, where: only daughter, only child, heir · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, Hadvor), 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	13 had	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 were	expl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 time	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Queen	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 daughter	det
15	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daughter	amod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 called	punct
18	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 daughter	acl
19	Hadvor	Hadvor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 called	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fair	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 fair	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fair	cop
23	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Hadvor	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 beautiful	cc
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fair	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 child	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 child	cc
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 child	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 child	det
30	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 child	amod
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 heir	punct
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 heir	cop
34	heir	heir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 child	appos
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 kingdom	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 kingdom	det
37	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 heir	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	a King and a Queen	a only daughter	once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	call	participle		a only daughter not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Hadvor		fair property	tree rules
4	be		Hadvor not said here			tree rules
5	is a	gerund		a only child		tree rules
6	is a	past		heir	to the kingdom	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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