The Violet Fairy Book, The Enchanted Knife, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a young man who vowed that he would never marry any girl who had not royal blood in her veins.

Who acts: young man, man, girl · What happens: live, vow, not marry, have · To what, where: young man, girl, royal blood, veins

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Knife. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man, girl), 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	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 vowed	nsubj
11	vowed	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 marry	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 marry	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 marry	aux
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 marry	advmod
16	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 vowed	advcl
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 marry	obj
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 girl	acl:relcl
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 royal	advmod
22	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 blood	amod
23	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 veins	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 veins	nmod:poss
26	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a young man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	vow	past	a young man					tree rules
3	not marry	would	man	any girl				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient
4	have	past	any girl	royal blood	girl's veins			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=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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