The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 104

This was all very well; but, one day, as they were talking together, the king happened to enter the room, and although Hans quickly changed himself into a ring again it was too late.

Who acts: This, friends, king, room · What happens: be, talk, happen, enter, change · To what, where: one day, room, king, ring

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, friends, king, room), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 well	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 well	advmod
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 day	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 well	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 talking	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 talking	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 talking	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 talking	aux
15	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 day	acl:relcl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 talking	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 happened	nsubj
20	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 talking	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 enter	mark
22	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happened	xcomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 enter	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 changed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 changed	cc
27	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 Hans	case
28	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 changed	obl
29	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	30 changed	advmod
30	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	conj
31	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 changed	obj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 ring	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ring	det
34	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 changed	obl
35	again	again	ADV	_	39 late	advmod
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 late	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 late	cop
38	too	too	ADV	_	39 late	advmod
39	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 changed	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 well	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	This		day	all, well property	tree rules
2	talk	past · progressive	friends = friend	one day not said here		together property	vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent day=Patient
3	happen	past	the king				tree rules
4	enter	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the room			vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
5	change	past	the king not said here	king		into a ring result; although Hans; quickly property	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into ring=Result
6	is	past	room		again	late property	tree rules

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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