The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 91
But, by good fortune, a man was crossing the river on his way to his work, and saw in a moment what had happened.
Who acts: good fortune, moment, man · What happens: cross, see, happen, work · To what, where: river, way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good fortune, moment, man), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 crossing | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortune | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fortune | case |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fortune | amod |
| 5 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossing | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fortune | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossing | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crossing | aux |
| 10 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossing | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossing | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 work | nmod:poss |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crossing | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 moment | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 moment | det |
| 24 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obl |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 happened | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happened | aux |
| 27 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 moment | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | good fortune | the river | man's way to man's work | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | |||
| 2 | see | past | good fortune not said here | moment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | a moment | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | work | man | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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