The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a queen whose heart was sore because she had no children.

Who acts: heart, she · What happens: live, be, have · To what, where: queen, children

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, she), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 queen	det
8	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sore	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sore	cop
12	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 queen	acl:relcl
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	advcl
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 children	det
17	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a queen	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme queen=Location
2	is	past	heart				sore property	tree rules
3	have	past	she	no children				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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