English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 1

Here was once a man who travelled the land all over in search of a wife.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, travel, search · To what, where: land, search, wife

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 once	cop
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Here	conj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 man	det
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 travelled	nsubj
7	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 man	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travelled	obj
10	all	all	ADV	_	11 over	advmod
11	over	over	ADV	_	7 travelled	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 search	case
13	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 travelled	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wife	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wife	det
16	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 search	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				once property	tree rules
2	travel	past	a man	the land	search of a wife	over property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory
3	search			a wife			nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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