The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 1

There once lived a merchant whose name was Mark, and whom people called ‘Mark the Rich.’

Who acts: name, Mark · What happens: live, be, call, name · To what, where: merchant, Mark, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Mark), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 merchant	det
5	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
6	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Mark	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Mark	cop
9	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 merchant	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 whom	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 whom	cc
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 lived	parataxis
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 whom	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 people	acl
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Mark	punct
16	Mark	Mark	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Rich	det
18	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mark	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a merchant	there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location
2	is a	past	Mark's name	Mark			tree rules
3	call	participle		people not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	name		Mark				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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