Celtic Fairy Tales, Brewery of Eggshells, sentence 2

There once lived there a man and his wife, and they had twins whom the woman nursed tenderly.

Who acts: man · What happens: live, have, nurse · To what, where: man, twins, woman

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Brewery of Eggshells. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 lived	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wife	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wife	nmod:poss
9	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 man	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
14	twins	twin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 woman	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woman	det
17	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 twins	nmod
18	nursed	nurse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 woman	acl
19	tenderly	tenderly	ADV	_	18 nursed	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a man and strife's wife	there; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location
2	have	past	man	twins whom woman			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twin=Patient
3	nurse	participle		whom woman not said here		tenderly property	vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=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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