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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

casedetoblpunctccdetadvmodamodobl:unmarkednsubjcoppunctmarknsubjcopadvmodcasenmod:possappospunctcccasenmod:possconjpunctccdetnmod:possadvmodcaseappospunctexplacl:relcldetnsubjnmod:possnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccnmod:possnsubj:passauxacl:relcladvmodpunctrootOnceADVuponADPaDETtimeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaDETveryADVgoodADJtimeNOUNitPRONwasAUX,PUNCTthoughSCONJitPRONwasAUXn'tPARTinADPmyPRONtimeNOUN,PUNCTnorCCONJinADPyourPRONtimeNOUN,PUNCTnorCCONJanyDEToneNOUNelseADV'sPARTtimeNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONwasAUXaDETgirlNOUNwhosePRONmotherNOUNhadAUXdiedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJherPRONfatherNOUNhadAUXmarriedVERBagainADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OnceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Multrootroot
2uponuponADP_4 timecase
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art4 timedet
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Onceobl
5,,PUNCT_20 timepunct
6andandCCONJ_20 timecc
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art10 timedet
8veryveryADV_9 goodadvmod
9goodgoodADJDegree=Pos10 timeamod
10timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing20 timeobl:unmarked
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 timensubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 timecop
13,,PUNCT_20 timepunct
14thoughthoughSCONJ_20 timemark
15ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 timensubj
16wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 timecop
17n'tnotPARTPolarity=Neg20 timeadvmod
18ininADP_20 timecase
19mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 timenmod:poss
20timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing1 Onceappos
21,,PUNCT_25 timepunct
22nornorCCONJPolarity=Neg25 timecc
23ininADP_25 timecase
24youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 timenmod:poss
25timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing20 timeconj
26,,PUNCT_32 timepunct
27nornorCCONJPolarity=Neg32 timecc
28anyanyDETPronType=Ind29 onedet
29oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing32 timenmod:poss
30elseelseADV_29 oneadvmod
31's'sPART_29 onecase
32timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing25 timeappos
33,,PUNCT_35 waspunct
34theretherePRONPronType=Dem35 wasexpl
35wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 timeacl:relcl
36aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art37 girldet
37girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing35 wasnsubj
38whosewhosePRONPoss=Yes PronType=Rel39 mothernmod:poss
39mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing41 diednsubj
40hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 diedaux
41dieddieVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part37 girlacl:relcl
42,,PUNCT_47 marriedpunct
43andandCCONJ_47 marriedcc
44herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs45 fathernmod:poss
45fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing47 marriednsubj:pass
46hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin47 marriedaux
47marriedmarryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 timeacl:relcl
48againagainADV_47 marriedadvmod
49..PUNCT_1 Oncepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not ispastitin my time nor your time; timetree rules
2diepast · perfectmothervn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3marrypast · perfect · passivemy time nor your time not said heremother's fatheragainvn 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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