The Green Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a pig who lived with her three children on a large, comfortable, old-fashioned farmyard.

Who acts: pig · What happens: be, live · To what, where: three children, large fashioned farmyard

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Little Pigs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pig), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pig	det
8	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lived	nsubj
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pig	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lived	obl
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 children	nummod
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	obl
15	on	on	ADP	_	24 farmyard	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 farmyard	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 farmyard	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 comfortable	punct
19	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 large	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 large	punct
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 fashioned	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 old	punct
23	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 farmyard	amod
24	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a pig	three children		a large fashioned farmyard		with pig	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with she=Location

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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