More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 104
There happened to be a young prince there, and he fell at once in love with her.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: happen, be, fall · To what, where: young prince, love
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 happened | expl |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 prince | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prince | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 prince | amod |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 happened | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 fell | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | there; there | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a young prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Prince | love | with Rushen | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/28/104/