The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived in the same village two children, one called Sylvain and the other Jocosa, who were both remarkable for beauty and intelligence.

Who acts: two children, Sylvain · What happens: live, call, be · To what, where: same village, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two children, Sylvain), 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	in	in	ADP	_	10 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 village	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 village	amod
10	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 children	nummod
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 village	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 called	nsubj:pass
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 children	acl
16	Sylvain	Sylvain	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Jocosa	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Jocosa	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Jocosa	amod
20	Jocosa	Jocosa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sylvain	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 remarkable	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 remarkable	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 remarkable	cop
24	both	both	ADV	_	25 remarkable	advmod
25	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Sylvain	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 beauty	case
27	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 remarkable	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 intelligence	cc
29	intelligence	intelligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beauty	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past			the same village and two children; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in village=Location
2	call	participle · passive	two children not said here	one				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	past	Sylvain and the other Jocosa				for beauty and intelligence; both, remarkable property	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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