English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 1
Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't in my time, nor in your time, nor any one else's time, there was a girl whose mother had died, and her father had married again.
Who acts: it, mother, time · What happens: not be, die, marry · To what, where: father
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, mother, time), 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 | root | root |
| 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 | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 time | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 good | advmod |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 time | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 time | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 time | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | cop |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 time | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 time | nmod:poss |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 time | punct |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 time | cc |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 time | nmod:poss |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 time | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 time | punct |
| 27 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 time | cc |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 time | nmod:poss |
| 30 | else | else | ADV | _ | 29 one | advmod |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 one | case |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 was | punct |
| 34 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 35 was | expl |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 time | acl:relcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 girl | det |
| 37 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 was | nsubj |
| 38 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 39 mother | nmod:poss |
| 39 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 died | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 died | aux |
| 41 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 girl | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 married | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 married | cc |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 married | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 married | aux |
| 47 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 48 | again | again | ADV | _ | 47 married | advmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | it | in my time nor your time; time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past · perfect | mother | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect · passive | my time nor your time not said here | mother's father | again | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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