More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 85
Well, it happened soon after that the young lord of the castle was coming home, and there was to be a grand ball in honour of the occasion.
Who acts: it, young lord · What happens: happen, come, be, honour · To what, where: grand ball, honour, occasion
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, young lord), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 happened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 happened | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 coming | mark |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 coming | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lord | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lord | amod |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 coming | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 castle | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 castle | det |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lord | nmod |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 coming | aux |
| 15 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 15 coming | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 was | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 ball | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ball | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 ball | det |
| 24 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ball | amod |
| 25 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 honour | case |
| 27 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ball | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 occasion | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 occasion | det |
| 30 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 honour | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past · progressive | the young lord of the castle | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | be | past | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a grand ball | honour of the occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | honour | the occasion | nom honour «state transitive»: of=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: «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.
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