Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 132
"Once upon a time there lived a wealthy merchant who had a pet dog.
Who acts: wealthy merchant · What happens: live, have · To what, where: wealthy merchant, pet dog
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wealthy merchant), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
| 2 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 lived | advmod |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lived | advmod |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 9 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 merchant | amod |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 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 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dog | det |
| 14 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dog | compound |
| 15 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | past | a wealthy merchant | there | time | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location | ||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | a wealthy merchant | a pet dog | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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