The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 59
At last it happened that a youth from her village passed through the place where the girl’s brother was, and the two met and talked.
Who acts: it, youth, two · What happens: happen, pass, meet, talk · To what, where: place
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, youth, two), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 youth | det |
| 7 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 village | nmod:poss |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 youth | nmod |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 was | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 met | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 met | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 two | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 met | nsubj |
| 25 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 talked | cc |
| 27 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 met | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | 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 | pass | past | a youth from youth's village | the place | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through place=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | the two | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | talk | past | the two not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 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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