Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a king who had a wife, whose name was Silver-tree, and a daughter, whose name was Gold-tree.
Who acts: king, name, daughter, Silver tree · What happens: have, be, name · To what, where: wife, Silver tree, Gold tree
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, name, daughter, Silver tree), 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 | 30 tree | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tree | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 name | nmod:poss |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tree | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tree | cop |
| 17 | Silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 Silver | punct |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tree | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tree | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 daughter | det |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 name | punct |
| 25 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 26 name | nmod:poss |
| 26 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | conj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tree | cop |
| 28 | Gold | gold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tree | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Gold | punct |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a king | a wife and Silver tree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Silver tree's name | Silver tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a daughter and a daughter and a daughter's name's name | Gold tree | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | name | Silver tree | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | name | a daughter and a daughter and name's name | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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