The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1, sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a King and Queen who loved one another dearly.
What happens: live, love · To what, where: King, one
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 lived | 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 | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Queen | cc |
| 10 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | conj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 loved | nsubj |
| 12 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lived | conj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 loved | obj |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 one | fixed |
| 15 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 12 loved | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a King and Queen | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | love | past | one | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
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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