The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 77
It happened to be dinner time, and Jack invited the chamberlain, who knew nothing of the trick, to stay and dine with him.
Who acts: It, Jack, chamberlain · What happens: happen, be, invite, know, stay, dine · To what, where: dinner time, chamberlain, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Jack, chamberlain), 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 | _ | 6 time | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | cop |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 invited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 invited | cc |
| 9 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 invited | nsubj |
| 10 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 chamberlain | det |
| 12 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invited | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chamberlain | acl:relcl |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 knew | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 trick | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 trick | det |
| 19 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stay | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 stay | mark |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 invited | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dine | cc |
| 24 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 stay | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 dine | obl |
| 27 | . | . | 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 | dinner time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | invite | past | Jack | the chamberlain | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | know | past | the chamberlain | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | stay | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | dine | infinitive | Jack not said here | with Jack | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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