The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 42
Thus it happened the next day, and the next, but on the fourth meeting, instead of meeting the raven, in his place the king’s son found waiting for him the handsomest youth that ever was seen, with a bundle in his hand.
Who acts: it, son, place · What happens: happen, meet, find, wait, see · To what, where: raven, place, handsomest youth
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. 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, place), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 next | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 next | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 next | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 happened | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 meeting | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 meeting | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 meeting | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meeting | det |
| 15 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 meeting | amod |
| 16 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meeting | punct |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 20 meeting | mark |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 instead | fixed |
| 20 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 meeting | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 raven | det |
| 22 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meeting | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 place | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 place | nmod:poss |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meeting | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 king | det |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 son | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 king | case |
| 30 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 place | acl:relcl |
| 32 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 found | xcomp |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 waiting | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 youth | det |
| 36 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 youth | amod |
| 37 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 waiting | obl |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 41 seen | advmod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux:pass |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 youth | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 bundle | punct |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 bundle | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 bundle | det |
| 45 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seen | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 hand | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 hand | nmod:poss |
| 48 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 bundle | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | gerund | the raven | raven's place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | find | past | the king's son | raven's place not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent place=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | raven's place not said here | the handsomest youth | for son | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past · passive | the handsomest youth | ever | 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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