The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 1
Once there was a king who had great riches, which, when he died, he divided among his three sons.
Who acts: king, great riches · What happens: be, have, die, divide · To what, where: great riches
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, great riches), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 was | mark |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 divided | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 riches | amod |
| 9 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 died | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 died | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 died | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 died | nsubj |
| 15 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 riches | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 divided | nsubj |
| 18 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 22 sons | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sons | nmod:poss |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sons | nummod |
| 22 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 divided | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a king | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a king | great riches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Patient | ||||
| 3 | die | past | great riches | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | divide | past | king | among king's three sons | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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