English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 1

Once upon a time, there was a mighty baron in the North Countrie who was a great magician that knew everything that would come to pass.

Who acts: mighty baron, North Countrie, great magician · What happens: be, know, come, pass · To what, where: great magician, everything

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty baron, North Countrie, great magician), 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	7 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	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 was	expl
7	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 baron	det
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 baron	amod
10	baron	baron	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 was	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 Countrie	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Countrie	det
13	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Countrie	compound
14	Countrie	Countrie	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 baron	nmod
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 magician	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 magician	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 magician	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 magician	amod
19	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Countrie	acl:relcl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 knew	nsubj
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 magician	acl:relcl
22	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	21 knew	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 come	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 everything	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 pass	mark
27	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 come	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a mighty baron in the North Countrie		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the North Countrie	a great magician			tree rules
3	know	past	a great magician	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
4	come	would					tree rules
5	pass	to-infinitive					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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