The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 108
The King happened at that moment to be at the palace window.
Who acts: King · What happens: happen, be · To what, where: palace window
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 moment | det |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 window | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 window | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 window | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 window | compound |
| 12 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the King | moment | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | the King not said here | the palace window | 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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