The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 1

There were once upon a time three brothers, of whom the eldest was called Jacob, the second Frederick, and the youngest Peter.

Who acts: three brothers · What happens: be, call · To what, where: three brothers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three brothers), 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 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 were	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 were	obl
7	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 whom	case
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 called	nsubj:pass
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eldest	det
13	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 whom	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 called	aux:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 brothers	acl:relcl
16	Jacob	Jacob	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Frederick	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Frederick	det
19	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 Frederick	amod
20	Frederick	Frederick	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Jacob	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Peter	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 Peter	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Peter	det
24	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 Peter	amod
25	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	three brothers			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	past · passive		three brothers					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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