The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 30

But it often happened that for weeks at a time they were quite alone on the rock Ahtola, and had nothing to look at except their little yellow-brown dog, which bore the grand name of Prince, their grass tufts, their bushes and blooms, the sea bays and fish, a stormy sky and the blue, white-crested waves.

Who acts: it, Matte, little brown dog · What happens: happen, be, have, look, bear, name · To what, where: rock, nothing, grand name, Prince

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Matte, little brown dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 happened	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 weeks	mark
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl:unmarked
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 weeks	nmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 alone	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 alone	cop
13	quite	quite	ADV	_	14 alone	advmod
14	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 time	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 rock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rock	det
17	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 alone	obl
18	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 rock	appos
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 had	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 look	mark
24	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 nothing	acl
25	at	at	ADP	_	32 dog	case
26	except	except	ADP	_	32 dog	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dog	nmod:poss
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dog	amod
29	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brown	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 yellow	punct
31	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 dog	amod
32	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 look	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bore	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 bore	nsubj
35	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 dog	acl:relcl
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 name	det
37	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 name	amod
38	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bore	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Prince	case
40	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 name	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tufts	punct
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 tufts	nmod:poss
43	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tufts	compound
44	tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 name	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bushes	punct
46	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 bushes	nmod:poss
47	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 tufts	conj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 blooms	cc
49	blooms	bloom	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 bushes	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bays	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 bays	det
52	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 bays	compound
53	bays	bay	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 tufts	conj
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 fish	cc
55	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 bays	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 sky	punct
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 sky	det
58	stormy	stormy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 sky	amod
59	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 tufts	conj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 waves	cc
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 waves	det
62	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 waves	amod
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 blue	punct
64	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 crested	amod
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 white	punct
66	crested	crested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	67 waves	amod
67	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 name	conj
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			week	often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Matte		the rock		alone property	tree rules
3	have	past		nothing				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	look	to-infinitive		nothing not said here			at Matte's little brown dog	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dog=Theme
5	bear	past	Matte's little brown dog	the grand name of Prince Matte's grass tufts and Matte's bushes and blooms and the sea bays and fish and a stormy sky and the blue crested waves				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
6	name			Prince				nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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