English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 1

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it was neither in my time nor in your time nor in any one else's time, there was an old man and an old woman, and they had one son, and they lived in a great forest.

Who acts: it, old man, man · What happens: be, have, live · To what, where: one son, great forest

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, old man, man), 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	root	root
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	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 time	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 good	advmod
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 time	punct
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	20 time	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
17	neither	neither	ADV	_	20 time	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 time	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 time	nmod:poss
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	conj
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 time	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod:poss
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 time	conj
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	31 time	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	31 time	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 time	nmod:poss
29	else	else	ADV	_	28 one	advmod
30	's	's	PART	_	28 one	case
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 time	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 was	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 was	expl
34	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	advcl
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 was	nsubj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 woman	cc
39	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 woman	det
40	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 woman	amod
41	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 had	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 had	cc
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 was	parataxis
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 son	nummod
47	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 lived	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 lived	cc
50	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 lived	nsubj
51	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 had	conj
52	in	in	ADP	_	55 forest	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 forest	det
54	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 forest	amod
55	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 lived	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			in my time nor your time nor any one's time	neither property	tree rules
2	be	past	a old man and a old woman		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	man	one son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	live	past	man		a great forest			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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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