The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 41
They had been living for some time in the forest in this way, when it came to pass that the King of that country had a great hunt through the woods.
Who acts: prayers, way, King · What happens: live, come, pass, have · To what, where: great hunt, woods
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prayers, way, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 living | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 living | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 living | aux |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 way | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 living | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pass | mark |
| 19 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 had | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 country | det |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 King | nmod |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pass | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hunt | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 hunt | amod |
| 29 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 woods | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 woods | det |
| 32 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 had | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect · progressive | prayers = prayer | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | way | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | way not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the King of that country | a great hunt | the woods | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Patient |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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