English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 4

Now the Baron knew the father of the little girl was very, very poor, and he had five children already.

Who acts: Baron, father · What happens: know, be, have · To what, where: five children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Baron, father), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Baron	det
3	Baron	Baron	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knew	nsubj
4	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 father	det
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 poor	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 girl	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 girl	amod
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 poor	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	15 poor	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 poor	punct
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 poor	advmod
15	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 knew	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 had	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knew	conj
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nummod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 had	obj
22	already	already	ADV	_	19 had	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Baron		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	the father of the little girl			poor property	tree rules
3	have	past	baron	five children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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