The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 92

The poor princess was only too right, and everything came to pass exactly as she had foreseen it.

Who acts: poor princess, everything, princess · What happens: be, come, pass, have

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 (poor princess, everything, princess), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 princess	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 princess	amod
3	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 right	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 right	advmod
7	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 came	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 came	cc
10	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 right	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pass	mark
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 came	xcomp
14	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	17 had	advmod
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pass	ccomp
18	foreseen	foreseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 had	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 foreseen	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor princess	right property	tree rules
2	come	past	everything		tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	everything not said here		tree rules
4	have	past	princess	exactly, foreseen property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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 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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