English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 1

Once upon a time there was a farmer and his wife who had one daughter, and she was courted by a gentleman.

Who acts: wife, gentleman · What happens: have, be · To what, where: one daughter, wife

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, gentleman), 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	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 courted	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 farmer	det
8	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wife	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wife	nmod:poss
11	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 farmer	conj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wife	acl:relcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 daughter	nummod
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 courted	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 courted	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 courted	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 courted	aux:pass
20	courted	court	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 gentleman	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gentleman	det
23	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 courted	obl:agent
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 courted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	his wife	one daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	past · passive	a gentleman	wife				court property	tree rules

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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