The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 59

He saw that what had happened had happened, and that a thousand words would not alter matters by a hair’s-breadth.

Who acts: King, thousand words · What happens: see, happen, not alter · To what, where: matters · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, thousand words), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 happened	mark
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 happened	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happened	aux
6	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 saw	ccomp
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 happened	aux
8	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 happened	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 alter	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 alter	cc
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 alter	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thousand	det
13	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 words	nummod
14	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 alter	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 alter	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 alter	advmod
17	alter	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 saw	conj
18	matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 alter	obj
19	by	by	ADP	_	23 breadth	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 breadth	det
21	hair’s	hair's	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 breadth	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 hair’s	punct
23	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 alter	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	King			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not alter	would	thousand words	matters	by a hair’s breadth	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent matter=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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