The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 47

When they had gone some distance on their way, the White Bear asked her if everything had not happened just as he had foretold, and she could not but own that it had.

Who acts: candles, White Bear, everything, bear, distance · What happens: go, ask, not happen, foretell, own, have · To what, where: distance, way, mother

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (candles, White Bear, everything, bear), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 own	advcl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 distance	det
6	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 way	nmod:poss
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bear	det
12	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Bear	amod
13	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 way	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	iobj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 happened	mark
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 happened	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 happened	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 happened	advmod
20	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 asked	ccomp
21	just	just	ADV	_	25 foretold	advmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 foretold	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 foretold	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 foretold	aux
25	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 happened	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 could	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 could	cc
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 could	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 own	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 could	advmod
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 own	cc
32	own	own	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 had	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 own	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 own	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	candles = candle	some distance		candles's way	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the White Bear	candles's way not said here	mother		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	not happen a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	everything				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	foretell	past · perfect	bear				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	own	could					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
6	have	past	distance				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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