English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 103

Once upon a time there was a teeny-tiny woman lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village.

Who acts: teeny tiny woman · What happens: be, live · To what, where: teeny tiny house

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 (teeny tiny woman), 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	12 lived	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 woman	det
8	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 teeny	punct
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	in	in	ADP	_	18 house	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
15	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 teeny	punct
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	24 village	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 village	det
21	teeny	teeny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tiny	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 teeny	punct
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 village	amod
24	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 house	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a teeny tiny woman not said here			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a teeny tiny woman			a teeny tiny house in a tiny village			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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