The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 1
Once on a time there were three princes, who had a step-sister.
Who acts: three princes · What happens: be, have · To what, where: step sister
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three princes), 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 were | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 princes | nummod |
| 8 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 princes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sister | det |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sister | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 step | punct |
| 15 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | three princes | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | three princes | a step sister | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=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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