The Violet Fairy Book, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived an emperor whose name was Trojan, and he had ears like a goat.

Who acts: name, he · What happens: live, be, have · To what, where: emperor, ears

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Goat’s Ears of the Emperor Trojan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, he), 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	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 emperor	det
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Trojan	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Trojan	cop
12	Trojan	trojan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 emperor	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
17	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 goat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 goat	det
20	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ears	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a emperor	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme emperor=Location
2	is	past	name				trojan property	tree rules
3	have	past	he	ears			like a goat	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=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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