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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 18

And so it always happened, and Covan's courage had well-nigh failed him, when the thought of the Dog of Maol-mor darted into his mind.

Who acts: it, courage · What happens: happen, have, fail, dart, think, mind · To what, where: courage, thought, mind, Dog

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, courage), 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

ccadvmodnsubjadvmodpunctccnmod:posscasensubjconjadvmodpunctadvmodadvclobjpunctadvmoddetnsubj:passcasedetnmodcasecompoundpunctnmodconjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootAndCCONJsoADVitPRONalwaysADVhappenedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJCovanPROPN'sPARTcourageNOUNhadVERBwellADV-PUNCTnighADVfailedVERBhimPRON,PUNCTwhenADVtheDETthoughtNOUNofADPtheDETDogNOUNofADPMaolPROPN-PUNCTmorNOUNdartedVERBintoADPhisPRONmindNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 happenedcc
2sosoADV_5 happenedadvmod
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 happenednsubj
4alwaysalwaysADVPronType=Tot5 happenedadvmod
5happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6,,PUNCT_11 hadpunct
7andandCCONJ_11 hadcc
8CovanCovanPROPNNumber=Sing10 couragenmod:poss
9's'sPART_8 Covancase
10couragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing11 hadnsubj
11hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 happenedconj
12wellwellADVDegree=Pos15 failedadvmod
13--PUNCT_12 wellpunct
14nighnighADV_15 failedadvmod
15failedfailVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 hadadvcl
16himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 failedobj
17,,PUNCT_28 dartedpunct
18whenwhenADVPronType=Int28 dartedadvmod
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 thoughtdet
20thoughtthoughtNOUNNumber=Sing28 dartednsubj:pass
21ofofADP_23 Dogcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 Dogdet
23DogdogNOUNNumber=Sing20 thoughtnmod
24ofofADP_27 morcase
25MaolMaolPROPNNumber=Sing27 morcompound
26--PUNCT_25 Maolpunct
27mormorNOUNNumber=Sing23 Dognmod
28darteddartVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass15 failedconj
29intointoADP_31 mindcase
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 mindnmod:poss
31mindmindNOUNNumber=Sing28 dartedobl
32..PUNCT_5 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitalways propertyvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2havepastCovan's couragevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3failpastCovan's courage not said herecouragenigh, well propertyvn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
4dartparticiple · passivethe thought of the Dog of Maol morcourage's mindvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into mind=Trajectory
5thinkthe Dog of Maol mornom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6mindcouragenom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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