The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 50
In a little while it happened just as the fairies had foretold, and a baby girl was born in the palace.
Who acts: it · What happens: happen, foretell, bear · To what, where: fairies, baby girl, palace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 happened | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 little | ccomp |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 foretold | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 foretold | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fairies | det |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 foretold | aux |
| 12 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 happened | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 born | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 born | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 16 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 girl | compound |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 born | aux:pass |
| 19 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 foretold | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 born | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | 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 | foretell | past · perfect · passive | the fairies | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | a baby girl | the palace | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 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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