English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 34

Once upon a time there was an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy.

What happens: be · To what, where: old man

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: 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	cop
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 woman	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 woman	cc
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 boy	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 boy	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 boy	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 boy	amod
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a old man and a little boy					tree rules

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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