The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 2

There was once an emperor, very great and mighty, and he ruled over an empire so large that no one knew where it began and where it ended.

Who acts: emperor, one, tale · What happens: be, rule, know, begin, end · To what, where: empire · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, one, tale), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 emperor	det
5	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 great	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 great	advmod
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 emperor	appos
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 mighty	cc
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 great	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ruled	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ruled	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ruled	nsubj
14	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
15	over	over	ADP	_	17 empire	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 empire	det
17	empire	empire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ruled	obl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ruled	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 knew	mark
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 knew	nsubj
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 large	advcl
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 began	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 began	nsubj
26	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 knew	ccomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 ended	cc
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 ended	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 ended	nsubj
30	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 began	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a emperor	there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rule	past	emperor	a empire		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	no one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	begin	past	tale			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	end	past	tale			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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