The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a young man named Rosimond, who was as good and handsome as his elder brother Bramintho was ugly and wicked.

Who acts: Rosimond, elder brother · What happens: live, name, be · To what, where: young man

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond, elder brother), 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	9 man	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 man	acl
11	Rosimond	Rosimond	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 named	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 good	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 good	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 good	cop
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 good	advmod
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Rosimond	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 handsome	cc
18	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 good	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 ugly	mark
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brother	nmod:poss
21	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 brother	amod
22	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ugly	nsubj
23	Bramintho	Bramintho	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 brother	appos
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 ugly	cop
25	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 handsome	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 wicked	cc
27	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ugly	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a young man	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	name	participle		a young man not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Rosimond				good property	tree rules
4	be		Rosimond not said here					tree rules
5	is	past	Rosimond's elder brother				ugly property	tree rules
6	be		Rosimond's elder brother not said here					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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