English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a boy whose name was Jack, and he lived with his mother on a common.

Who acts: boy, name, Jack · What happens: be, live, name · To what, where: Jack, common

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, name, Jack), 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	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 name	nmod:poss
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Jack	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Jack	cop
12	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boy	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 common	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 common	det
22	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 lived	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a boy		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	Jack's name	Jack			tree rules
3	live	past	boy		a common	with boy's mother	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location
4	name		Jack				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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