The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 107

Now it happens that, while he has received the money for the fat cattle, he has not yet paid the price of the thin ones, which he has in the cowhouse.

Who acts: it, son · What happens: happen, receive, not pay, have · To what, where: money, son, thin ones, cowhouse

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, son), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happens	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	nsubj
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 happens	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 received	punct
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 received	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 received	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 received	aux
9	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happens	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 money	det
11	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 received	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 cattle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cattle	det
14	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cattle	amod
15	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 received	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 paid	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 paid	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 paid	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 paid	advmod
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	21 paid	advmod
21	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happens	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 price	det
23	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 paid	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 ones	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ones	det
26	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ones	amod
27	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 price	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 has	obj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ones	acl:relcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 cowhouse	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cowhouse	det
34	cowhouse	cowhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	receive	present · perfect	son	the money			for the fat cattle	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme
3	not pay	present · perfect · passive		son		yet		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Recipient price=Asset
4	have	present	son	the thin ones	the cowhouse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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