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title: Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza. Who acts: emperor, himself. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the G
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 2

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Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza.

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**Who acts:** emperor, himself · **What happens:** live, have, rule over, dwell · **To what, where:** emperor, world, old herd

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor, himself), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:35:2
# text = Well, once upon a time there lived an emperor who had half a world all to himself to rule over, and in this world dwelt an old herd and his wife and their three daughters, Anna, Stana, and Laptitza.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	all	all	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nsubj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
27	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	Anna	Anna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Stana	Stana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	Laptitza	Laptitza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a emperor |  |  |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme emperor=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | a emperor | half world |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rule over** | to-infinitive | himself *= he* |  |  |  |  | all, over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **dwell** | past |  | a old herd |  | this world |  | Anna and Laptitza *obl* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme herd=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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