The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 97
It happened that the king’s son had come out from the town very early to shoot birds, and when the sun grew hot he left tired.
Who acts: It, son, sun · What happens: happen, come out, shoot, grow, leave · To what, where: town, birds
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, son, sun), 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 | _ | 9 come | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 early | advmod |
| 15 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 come | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 shoot | mark |
| 17 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 early | advcl |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 shoot | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grew | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grew | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 grew | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grew | nsubj |
| 24 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | parataxis |
| 25 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grew | xcomp |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 left | nsubj |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grew | conj |
| 28 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 left | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | 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 | come out | past · perfect | the king's son | the town | early, out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | the king's son not said here | birds | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | the sun | hot property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | past | sun | tired property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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