The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen, who were the best creatures in the world, and so kind-hearted that they could not bear to see their subjects want for anything.

Who acts: King, creatures, subjects · What happens: live, be, heart, not bear, see, want · To what, where: King, best creatures, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, creatures, subjects), 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	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 creatures	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 creatures	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 creatures	cop
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creatures	det
15	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 creatures	amod
16	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 King	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 world	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 creatures	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hearted	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hearted	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	25 hearted	advmod
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hearted	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
25	hearted	heart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 bear	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 bear	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bear	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 bear	advmod
30	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hearted	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 bear	xcomp
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 subjects	nmod:poss
34	subjects	subject	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 see	ccomp
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 anything	case
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	35 want	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a King and Queen and the best creatures	there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	a King and Queen and the best creatures	the best creatures	the world			tree rules
3	heart	past						tree rules
4	not bear	could	creatures = creature					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	see	to-infinitive	creatures = creature not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	want	present	creatures's subjects				for anything	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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