The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 63
After some time the same thing befell the second daughter, who was wooed and won by a prince from the West.
Who acts: same thing · What happens: befall, woo, win · To what, where: second daughter
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 (same thing), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 thing | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thing | amod |
| 6 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | nsubj |
| 7 | befell | befall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 daughter | det |
| 9 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 daughter | amod |
| 10 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 befell | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wooed | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 wooed | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wooed | aux:pass |
| 14 | wooed | woo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 won | cc |
| 16 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 wooed | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 prince | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 won | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 West | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 West | det |
| 22 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 prince | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 befell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | befall | past | the same thing | the second daughter | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | woo | past · passive | the second daughter | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | win | participle | by a prince from the West | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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 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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