The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a handsome black Spanish hen, who had a large brood of chickens.

Who acts: handsome black Spanish hen · What happens: be, have · To what, where: large brood

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome black Spanish hen), 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 was	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 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hen	det
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hen	amod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hen	amod
10	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hen	amod
11	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hen	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 brood	det
16	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 brood	amod
17	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 chickens	case
19	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 brood	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a handsome black Spanish hen			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a handsome black Spanish hen	a large brood of chickens					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Patient

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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