English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 48
Once upon a time there were two king's daughters lived in a bower near the bonny mill-dams of Binnorie.
Who acts: two daughters · What happens: live · To what, where: bower
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two daughters), 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 | 11 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 | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 daughters | nummod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 bower | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bower | det |
| 14 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 dams | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dams | det |
| 17 | bonny | bonny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dams | compound |
| 18 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dams | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 mill | punct |
| 20 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lived | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Binnorie | case |
| 22 | Binnorie | Binnorie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 dams | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | king's two daughters | a bower | near the bonny mill dams of Binnorie; once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bower=Location |
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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