The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 58
As he rode along one of the bulrushes happened to knock against something.
Who acts: Prince, one · What happens: ride, happen, knock · To what, where: something
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, one), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 rode | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 one | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bulrushes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bulrushes | det |
| 8 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 knock | mark |
| 11 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 happened | xcomp |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 something | case |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 knock | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | knock | to-infinitive | one not said here | something | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against something=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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