The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 149

‘Oh, once I had six sons, and now I have only one.

Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: six sons, one

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 (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sons	nummod
8	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 have	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 had	parataxis
14	only	only	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 have	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	I	six sons					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	have	present	I	one			now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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