The Green Fairy Book, The Story of the Three Bears, sentence 1

Once upon a time there were Three Bears, who lived together in a house of their own in a wood.

Who acts: Three Bears · What happens: be, live together · To what, where: house

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of the Three Bears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three Bears), 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 were	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	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 Bears	nummod
8	Bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lived	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 lived	nsubj
11	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Bears	acl:relcl
12	together	together	ADV	_	11 lived	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 house	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wood	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 wood	det
21	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lived	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	Three Bears			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live together	past	Three Bears			a house of Bears's own		in a wood; together property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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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