The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a poor woman who would have given all she possessed for a child, but she hadn’t one.

Who acts: poor woman, woman · What happens: be, give, possess, have · To what, where: poor woman, time, one

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor woman, woman), 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	9 woman	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 possessed	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	nsubj:pass
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
12	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 woman	acl:relcl
14	all	all	ADV	_	16 possessed	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 possessed	nsubj
16	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 time	acl:relcl
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 child	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 child	det
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 possessed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 had	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
24	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 one	advmod
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 had	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	give	would · perfect · passive		a poor woman				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	possess	past	a poor woman	a time not said here			for a child; all property	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot time=Theme
4	have	past	woman	one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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