The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 8

There was once upon a time a king called Kojata, whose beard was so long that it reached below his knees.

Who acts: king, beard · What happens: be, call, reach · To what, where: king, knees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, beard), 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	16 long	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 long	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 king	acl
10	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 called	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beard	punct
12	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	13 beard	nmod:poss
13	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Kojata	appos
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 long	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 long	advmod
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 was	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 reached	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reached	nsubj
19	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 long	advcl
20	below	below	ADP	_	22 knees	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 knees	nmod:poss
22	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 reached	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call	participle		a king not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	a king			time	long property	tree rules
4	reach	past	beard		KING's knees			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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