The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 211

Now it happened that they had floated close in to the shore, where a poor old man lived all alone in a little cottage.

Who acts: it, soles, poor old man · What happens: happen, float, live · To what, where: shore

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, soles, poor old man), 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	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 floated	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 floated	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 floated	aux
7	floated	float	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happened	advcl
8	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 floated	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 shore	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 shore	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shore	det
12	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 floated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lived	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shore	acl:relcl
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 alone	advmod
21	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lived	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	25 cottage	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cottage	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 cottage	amod
25	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 alone	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	float	past · perfect	soles = sole	the shore		close property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shore=Trajectory
3	live	past	a poor old man			alone property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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