The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 1

Years passed away, and one day, when the princess was playing ball in the garden, she happened to throw her ball farther than usual, and it fell into a clump of rose-bushes.

Who acts: Years, princess, ball · What happens: pass away, play, happen, throw, fall · To what, where: ball, garden, clump

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, princess, ball), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 day	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 day	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 day	nummod
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 passed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 playing	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 playing	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 playing	aux
13	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 day	acl
14	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 garden	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 garden	det
17	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 playing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 happened	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 happened	nsubj
20	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 passed	parataxis
21	to	to	PART	_	22 throw	mark
22	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 happened	xcomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 ball	nmod:poss
24	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 throw	obj
25	farther	far	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 throw	xcomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 usual	case
27	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 farther	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fell	cc
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 fell	nsubj
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	conj
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 clump	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 clump	det
34	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 bushes	case
36	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bushes	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 rose	punct
38	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 clump	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle	Years			day	away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	play	past · progressive	the princess	ball	the garden			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	happen	past	princess					tree rules
4	throw	to-infinitive	princess not said here	princess's ball			far property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
5	fall	past	ball				into a clump of rose bushes result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into clump=Result

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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