The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who, though it is a very long while since they died, were much the same in their tastes and pursuits as people nowadays.

Who acts: it, King · What happens: live, be, die, taste · To what, where: King, tastes

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King), 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 King	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 long	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 long	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 long	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 long	det
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
20	since	since	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 died	nsubj
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 same	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 same	cop
25	much	much	ADV	_	27 same	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 long	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 tastes	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tastes	nmod:poss
30	tastes	taste	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 same	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 pursuits	cc
32	pursuits	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tastes	conj
33	as	as	ADP	_	34 people	case
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 tastes	nmod
35	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	_	34 people	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King and Queen	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location
2	is	present	it				long property	tree rules
3	die	past	King					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is	past			King's tastes as people and pursuits		same property	tree rules
5	taste		King				as people	nom taste «cognition transitive»: poss=agent as=obl

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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