English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 1

Well, there was once a very rich gentleman, and he'd three daughters, and he thought he'd see how fond they were of him.

Who acts: gentleman, daughters · What happens: be, see · To what, where: fond · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 was	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 was	expl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 thought	cop
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 was	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 gentleman	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 rich	advmod
8	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gentleman	amod
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 once	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 'd	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 'd	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 'd	nsubj
13	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 was	conj
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 daughters	nummod
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 'd	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 thought	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 thought	nsubj
19	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 see	nsubj
21	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 see	aux
22	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thought	ccomp
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 fond	advmod
24	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 see	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 him	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 him	cop
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fond	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	be speech: other	past	gentleman		think property	tree rules
2	see	would	gentleman	fond		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fond=Stimulus
3	is	past	daughters = daughter		of him = he	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: «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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