The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 78

Now it happened one day that a King who was hunting in the wood had a large greyhound, who ran sniffing to the tree on which the girl sat, and jumped round it, yelping and barking furiously.

Who acts: it, King, large greyhound, girl · What happens: happen, hunt, have, run, sniff, sit · To what, where: wood, large greyhound, tree

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 (it, King, large greyhound, girl), 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hunting	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hunting	aux
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 King	acl:relcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 day	acl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 greyhound	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 greyhound	amod
18	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 ran	nsubj
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 greyhound	acl:relcl
22	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 ran	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 tree	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sniffing	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sat	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tree	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 jumped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 jumped	cc
33	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
34	round	round	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 jumped	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 yelping	punct
37	yelping	yelp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 jumped	advcl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 barking	cc
39	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 yelping	conj
40	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	39 barking	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it				now; day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	past · progressive	a King			the wood			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
3	have	past	a King	a large greyhound					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient
4	run	past	a large greyhound						tree rules
5	sniff	gerund	a large greyhound not said here		the tree				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tree=Recipient
6	sit	past	the girl			the tree			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
7	jump	past				tree			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory
8	yelp	gerund							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	bark	gerund						furiously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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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