The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 122
After they had lived like this for a few years, it happened one day that a Prince was riding through the wood and passed by the tower.
Who acts: plaits, it, Prince · What happens: live, happen, ride, pass · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plaits, it, Prince), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 lived | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 happened | advcl |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lived | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 years | det |
| 9 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 years | amod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 day | nummod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 riding | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 riding | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 riding | aux |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 happened | advcl |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 wood | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 wood | det |
| 23 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 riding | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 passed | cc |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 wood | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 tower | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tower | det |
| 28 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 passed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | plaits = plait | year | like this | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ride | past · progressive | a Prince | the wood | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | pass | participle | a Prince not said here | by the tower | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by tower=Location |
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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