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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 48

Now, the king's birthday fell in the month of June, and as the weather happened to be unusually fine, he told the princess to celebrate it in any way that pleased her.

Who acts: birthday, weather, king · What happens: fall, happen, be, tell, celebrate · To what, where: princess, weather, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birthday, weather, 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

advmodpunctdetnmod:posscasensubjcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccmarkdetnsubjadvclmarkcopadvmodadvclpunctnsubjconjdetobjmarkxcompobjcasedetoblnsubjamodnsubjpunctrootNowADV,PUNCTtheDETkingNOUN'sPARTbirthdayNOUNfellVERBinADPtheDETmonthNOUNofADPJunePROPN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJtheDETweatherNOUNhappenedVERBtoPARTbeAUXunusuallyADVfineADJ,PUNCThePRONtoldVERBtheDETprincessNOUNtoPARTcelebrateVERBitPRONinADPanyDETwayNOUNthatPRONpleasedADJherPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem7 felladvmod
2,,PUNCT_1 Nowpunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 kingdet
4kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing6 birthdaynmod:poss
5's'sPART_4 kingcase
6birthdaybirthdayNOUNNumber=Sing7 fellnsubj
7fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
8ininADP_10 monthcase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 monthdet
10monthmonthNOUNNumber=Sing7 fellobl
11ofofADP_12 Junecase
12JuneJunePROPNNumber=Sing10 monthnmod
13,,PUNCT_25 toldpunct
14andandCCONJ_25 toldcc
15asasSCONJ_18 happenedmark
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 weatherdet
17weatherweatherNOUNNumber=Sing18 happenednsubj
18happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 toldadvcl
19totoPART_22 finemark
20bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf22 finecop
21unusuallyunusuallyADV_22 fineadvmod
22finefineADJDegree=Pos18 happenedadvcl
23,,PUNCT_18 happenedpunct
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 toldnsubj
25toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 fellconj
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 princessdet
27princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing25 toldobj
28totoPART_29 celebratemark
29celebratecelebrateVERBVerbForm=Inf25 toldxcomp
30ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 celebrateobj
31ininADP_33 waycase
32anyanyDETPronType=Ind33 waydet
33waywayNOUNNumber=Sing29 celebrateobl
34thatthatPRONPronType=Rel35 pleasednsubj
35pleasedpleasedADJDegree=Pos33 wayamod
36hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs35 pleasednsubj
37..PUNCT_7 fellpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fallpastthe king's birthdaynow; monthvn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2happenpastthe weathervn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3isto-infinitivethe weather not said herefine, unusually propertytree rules
4tell speech: assertpastkingthe princessvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
5celebrate not said to happento-infinitiveking not said hereweatherany wayvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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