The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 87
Now after some time it happened one day when the King was out hunting that the Queen gave birth to a beautiful little boy.
Who acts: it, King, Queen · What happens: happen, hunt, give · To what, where: birth, beautiful little boy
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 (it, King, Queen), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 happened | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 hunting | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hunting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunting | aux |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 was | compound:prt |
| 14 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 happened | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Queen | det |
| 17 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunting | advcl |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 boy | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 22 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 boy | amod |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | the King | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the Queen | birth | a beautiful little boy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to boy=Recipient |
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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