The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 2

Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza.

Who acts: emperor, himself · What happens: live, have, rule over, dwell · To what, where: emperor, world, old herd

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, himself), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 lived	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 lived	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 once	obl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 time	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 emperor	det
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 emperor	acl:relcl
13	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	15 world	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 world	det
15	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	all	all	ADV	_	20 rule	advmod
17	to	to	SCONJ	_	20 rule	mark
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 rule	nsubj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 rule	mark
20	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
21	over	over	ADV	_	20 rule	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dwelt	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dwelt	cc
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 world	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 world	det
26	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	obl
27	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lived	conj
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 herd	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 herd	amod
30	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 Anna	cc
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 wife	nmod:poss
33	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Anna	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 daughters	cc
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughters	nmod:poss
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 daughters	nummod
37	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wife	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 Anna	punct
39	Anna	Anna	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 dwelt	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Stana	punct
41	Stana	Stana	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Anna	flat
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 Laptitza	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 Laptitza	cc
44	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Anna	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a emperor		once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme emperor=Location
2	have	past	a emperor	half world			tree rules
3	rule over	to-infinitive	himself = he			all, over property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	dwell	past		a old herd	this world	Anna and Laptitza obl	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme herd=Location

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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