The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 83

Unluckily, the mermaid happened at that moment to be floating on the water not very far off, and knew he was the boy who had been given her before he was born.

Who acts: mermaid · What happens: happen, float, know, be, give, bear · To what, where: water, boy, stream, mermaid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mermaid), 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	Unluckily	unluckily	ADV	_	5 happened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Unluckily	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mermaid	det
4	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 moment	det
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	11 floating	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 floating	aux
11	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 happened	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 floating	obl
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 off	advmod
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 far	advmod
17	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 off	advmod
18	off	off	ADV	_	11 floating	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 knew	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 knew	cc
21	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	parataxis
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 boy	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 boy	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 boy	det
25	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 knew	ccomp
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 given	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 given	aux:pass
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 boy	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	iobj
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	34 born	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 born	nsubj:pass
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 born	aux:pass
34	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 given	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the mermaid				moment	unluckily property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	to-infinitive · progressive	the mermaid not said here			the water		off property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
3	know	past							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	mermaid	the boy					tree rules
5	give	past · perfect · passive		the boy	stream				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient she=Theme
6	bear	past · passive		mermaid					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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