The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 73
Now it happened that it was in this very country that Prince Peerless had been set down, and while the Princess Sunbeam was still sleeping peacefully, he came strolling along in search of a shady pasture for his sheep.
Who acts: it, flock, Princess Sunbeam, Sunbeam · What happens: happen, be, set down, sleep, come, stroll · To what, where: country, Prince, search, shady pasture
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, flock, Princess Sunbeam, Sunbeam), 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 | _ | 10 country | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 country | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 country | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 country | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 country | advmod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 set | obj |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | Peerless | Peerless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | flat |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 set | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 set | aux:pass |
| 16 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 country | acl:relcl |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 set | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 sleeping | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sunbeam | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sunbeam | compound |
| 23 | Sunbeam | Sunbeam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 sleeping | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sleeping | aux |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 sleeping | advmod |
| 26 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 came | advcl |
| 27 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 26 sleeping | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sleeping | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 came | nsubj |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 31 | strolling | stroll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 came | advcl |
| 32 | along | along | ADV | _ | 31 strolling | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 search | case |
| 34 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 strolling | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 pasture | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pasture | det |
| 37 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 pasture | amod |
| 38 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 search | nmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 sheep | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 41 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 pasture | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | flock | this country | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | set down | past · perfect · passive | Prince | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination | |||||
| 4 | sleep | past · progressive | the Princess Sunbeam | still | peacefully property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | come | past | Sunbeam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | stroll | gerund | Sunbeam not said here | search of a shady pasture for Sunbeam's sheep | along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in search=Trajectory | |||
| 7 | search | a shady pasture for Sunbeam's sheep | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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