The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 64
It happened to be the king's custom to visit his stables once a week, so that he might see that his horses were being properly cared for.
Who acts: It, king · What happens: happen, be, visit, see, care · To what, where: custom, stables, horses
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, king), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 custom | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 custom | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 custom | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 visit | mark |
| 10 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 happened | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stables | nmod:poss |
| 12 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 visit | obj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 visit | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 week | det |
| 15 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 once | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 see | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 see | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 see | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 see | aux |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 visit | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 cared | mark |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 cared | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 cared | aux:pass |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 cared | aux:pass |
| 27 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 28 cared | advmod |
| 28 | cared | care | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | ccomp |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 cared | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | the king's custom | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | visit | to-infinitive | king's stables | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | might | king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | care | past · passive | king's horses | properly property | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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