English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 1

There was once a very learned man in the north-country who knew all the languages under the sun, and who was acquainted with all the mysteries of creation.

Who acts: learned man, north country · What happens: be, learn, know, acquaint · To what, where: languages, sun

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (learned man, north country), 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	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 country	det
10	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 country	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 north	punct
12	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 knew	nsubj
14	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 country	acl:relcl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 languages	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 languages	det
17	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 knew	obj
18	under	under	ADP	_	20 sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 knew	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 acquainted	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 acquainted	cc
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 acquainted	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 acquainted	aux:pass
25	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 was	conj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 mysteries	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 mysteries	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mysteries	det
29	mysteries	mystery	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 acquainted	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 creation	case
31	creation	creation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mysteries	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a learned man in the north country		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	the north country	all languages	the sun		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
4	acquaint speech: other	past · passive				with all mysteries of creation	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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