The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 74
The ogre had happened to choose a horse which he had bought only the day before, and he did not know it was a magician, or he would not have been so foolish as to fix upon it on this occasion.
Who acts: ogre, horse · What happens: happen, choose, buy, not know, be, not be · To what, where: horse, magician, occasion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogre, horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 choose | mark |
| 6 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 choose | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bought | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 bought | aux |
| 12 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 horse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 day | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 bought | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 know | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happened | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 magician | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 magician | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 magician | det |
| 26 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | ccomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 foolish | punct |
| 28 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 foolish | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 foolish | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 foolish | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 foolish | advmod |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 foolish | aux |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 foolish | cop |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 foolish | advmod |
| 35 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 happened | conj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 fix | mark |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 fix | mark |
| 38 | fix | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 foolish | advcl |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 fix | obl |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 occasion | case |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 occasion | det |
| 43 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 fix | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | the ogre | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | the ogre not said here | a horse | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | past · perfect · passive | a horse | day | before property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | ogre | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | horse | a magician | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not is | would · perfect | ogre | foolish property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | fix | to-infinitive | ogre not said here | this occasion | upon horse | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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: «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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