The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a poor woman who had only one child, and he was a little boy called Hassebu.

Who acts: poor woman, child · What happens: live, have, be, call · To what, where: poor woman, one child, little boy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, child), 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 woman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	acl:relcl
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 one	advmod
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 child	nummod
14	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 boy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 boy	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 boy	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 boy	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 boy	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 boy	amod
21	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 boy	acl
23	Hassebu	Hassebu	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a poor woman	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme woman=Location
2	have	past	a poor woman	one child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	is a	past	child	a little boy				tree rules
4	call	participle		a little boy not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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