English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 1

There was once upon a time a good man who had two children: a girl by a first wife, and a boy by the second.

Who acts: good man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: boy, two children

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good man), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	appos
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 man	acl:relcl
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 children	nummod
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 had	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 girl	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 man	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	20 wife	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 wife	det
19	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 wife	amod
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 girl	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 boy	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 boy	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 second	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 second	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 boy	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past		a boy by the second		there	time	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a good man and a girl by a first wife	two 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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