The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 2
It happened one day, when he was out hunting, that a little white rabbit, which his dogs were chasing, sprang into his arms for shelter.
Who acts: It, king, dogs · What happens: happen, hunt, chase, spring · To what, where: little white rabbit, arms
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, king, dogs), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hunting | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 hunting | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hunting | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hunting | aux |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 was | compound:prt |
| 10 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rabbit | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 rabbit | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rabbit | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rabbit | amod |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rabbit | amod |
| 16 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hunting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chasing | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 chasing | obj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 chasing | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 chasing | aux |
| 22 | chasing | chase | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 rabbit | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sprang | punct |
| 24 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 hunting | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 arms | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 arms | nmod:poss |
| 27 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sprang | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 shelter | case |
| 29 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sprang | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | king | a little white rabbit | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | chase | past · progressive | king's dogs | a little white rabbit | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spring | gerund | king not said here | king's arms | for shelter | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into arm=Destination |
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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