The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived a girl who lost her father and mother when she was quite a tiny child.

Who acts: girl · What happens: live, lose, be · To what, where: girl, father, tiny child

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 lost	nsubj
10	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 girl	acl:relcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lost	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mother	cc
14	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 father	conj
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 child	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 child	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 child	cop
18	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	21 child	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 child	det
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 child	amod
21	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a girl	there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme girl=Location
2	lose	past	a girl	girl's father and mother				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality
3	is a	past	girl	quite tiny child				tree rules

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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