The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who were foolish beyond all telling, but nevertheless they were vastly fond of one another.

Who acts: King · What happens: live, be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	13 foolish	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Queen	cc
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 King	conj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 foolish	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 foolish	cop
13	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 foolish	obl
16	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 all	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 fond	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 fond	cc
19	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	23 fond	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fond	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 fond	cop
22	vastly	vastly	ADV	_	23 fond	advmod
23	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lived	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 fond	obl
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	25 one	fixed
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	a King and Queen			beyond all; foolish property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	gerund					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	King			of one; fond, nevertheless, vastly property	tree rules

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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