English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies.

Who acts: woman · What happens: be, bake · To what, where: five pies

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 woman	det
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 baked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 baked	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 baked	nsubj
12	baked	bake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 was	conj
13	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 pies	nummod
14	pies	pie	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 baked	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a woman			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bake	past	woman	five pies					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product

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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