The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 1, sentence 3
But one day a most unexpected misfortune befell them.
Who acts: unexpected misfortune · What happens: befall · To what, where: sons
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unexpected misfortune), 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 | _ | 8 befell | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befell | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 misfortune | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 unexpected | advmod |
| 6 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 misfortune | amod |
| 7 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 befell | nsubj |
| 8 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 befell | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | a unexpected misfortune | sons = son | day | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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