The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 43

He happened to be reading a book many hundreds of years old, which told of remedies for all kinds of diseases.

Who acts: Gilguerillo, many hundreds · What happens: happen, read, tell · To what, where: book · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gilguerillo, many hundreds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	_	5 reading	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 reading	aux
5	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 happened	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 book	det
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reading	obj
8	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hundreds	amod
9	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 reading	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 years	case
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hundreds	nmod
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hundreds	amod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hundreds	parataxis
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 remedies	case
17	remedies	remedy	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 kinds	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 kinds	det
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remedies	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 diseases	case
22	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kinds	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Gilguerillo			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	read	to-infinitive · progressive	Gilguerillo not said here	a book		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent book=Recipient hundred=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	many hundreds of years		of remedies for all kinds of diseases	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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