The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 92
Thus it happened that when the sun rose not a single soldier was alive in the village.
Who acts: it, sun, single soldier · What happens: happen, not rise, be · To what, where: village
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, sun, single soldier), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 rose | mark |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 rose | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rose | nsubj |
| 8 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 rose | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 soldier | det |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 soldier | amod |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alive | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alive | cop |
| 14 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rose | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 village | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 village | det |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 alive | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not rise | past | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | a single soldier | the village | alive property | tree rules |
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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