The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a sultan who loved his garden dearly, and planted it with trees and flowers and fruits from all parts of the world.

Who acts: sultan · What happens: live, love, plant · To what, where: sultan, garden, parts

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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 sultan	det
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 loved	nsubj
10	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sultan	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 garden	nmod:poss
12	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loved	obj
13	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	10 loved	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 planted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 planted	cc
16	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 planted	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 trees	case
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 planted	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flowers	cc
21	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trees	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 fruits	cc
23	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 trees	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 parts	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 parts	det
26	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 planted	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 world	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 world	det
29	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 parts	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a sultan	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sultan=Location
2	love	past	a sultan	his garden			dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus
3	plant	past		garden	all parts of the world		with trees and flowers and fruits	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with tree=Instrument

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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