The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 29
It happened that these three brothers owned large flocks of sheep, though none so large and fine as the one they had just bought.
Who acts: It, three brothers, brothers · What happens: happen, own, buy · To what, where: large flocks, one
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, three brothers, brothers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 owned | mark |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 brothers | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 brothers | nummod |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 owned | nsubj |
| 7 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flocks | amod |
| 9 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 owned | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flocks | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 none | punct |
| 13 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 none | mark |
| 14 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 owned | conj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 large | advmod |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 none | amod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fine | cc |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 large | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 large | obl |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bought | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bought | aux |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 bought | advmod |
| 25 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | own | past | this three brothers | large flocks of sheep | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot flock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | buy | past · perfect | brothers = brother | the one not said here | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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