The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 54

There was once upon a time a poor woman who had one little daughter called ‘Parsley.’

Who acts: poor woman · What happens: be, have, call · To what, where: one little daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. 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), 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	6 time	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 woman	acl:relcl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 daughter	nummod
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 daughter	amod
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 daughter	acl
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 Parsley	punct
17	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct
19	’	'	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	have	past	a poor woman	one little daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	call	participle		one little daughter not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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