English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 1
There once lived a king and a queen as many a one has been.
Who acts: many one · What happens: live, be · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many one), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lived | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 lived | advmod |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 queen | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 queen | det |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 king | conj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 been | mark |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 been | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 been | aux |
| 14 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lived | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a king and a queen | there | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme king=Location | |||
| 2 | be | present · perfect | a many one | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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