The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 13

Now it so happened that in a little corner of the king’s dominions, beside the sea, there lived a poor fisher, who had three sons, and their names were Peter, Paul, and Jesper.

Who acts: it, poor fisher, names, dominions · What happens: happen, live, have, be, name · To what, where: poor fisher, little corner, three sons, Peter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, poor fisher, names, dominions), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lived	mark
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 corner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 corner	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 corner	amod
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 dominions	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dominions	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 corner	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sea	punct
16	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 sea	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sea	det
18	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dominions	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 corner	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 lived	expl
21	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fisher	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fisher	amod
24	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lived	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 had	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 had	nsubj
27	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fisher	acl:relcl
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sons	nummod
29	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 Peter	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 Peter	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 names	nmod:poss
33	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 Peter	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 Peter	cop
35	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 Paul	punct
37	Paul	Paul	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Peter	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Jesper	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 Jesper	cc
40	Jesper	Jesper	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Peter	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past		a poor fisher	a little corner of the king's dominions and the sea; there		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme fisher=Location
3	have	past	a poor fisher	three sons			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	is a	past	dominions's names	Peter and Paul and Jesper			tree rules
5	name		dominions = dominion				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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