Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 99

Once upon a time there lived a King who had seven Queens, but no children.

What happens: live, have · To what, where: King, seven Queens

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 had	nsubj
10	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
11	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 Queens	nummod
12	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 had	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 children	cc
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 children	det
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King		there	time	no children obl; once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	have	past		seven Queens					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=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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