The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 81
So they parted once more, and each took his own road, but in a very short time the same thing happened again—they met each other before they were at all aware, and so it happened the third time also.
Who acts: feathers, each, same thing, it · What happens: part, take, happen, meet, be · To what, where: own road, each
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feathers, each, same thing, it), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 parted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 parted | nsubj |
| 3 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 parted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 8 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 parted | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 road | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 road | amod |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happened | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 happened | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 time | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 short | advmod |
| 18 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 time | amod |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happened | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 happened | advmod |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 met | punct |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 met | nsubj |
| 27 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 parted | conj |
| 28 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 27 met | obj |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 each | fixed |
| 30 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 aware | mark |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 aware | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 aware | cop |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 aware | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 aware | det |
| 35 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 met | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 happened | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 happened | cc |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 happened | advmod |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 happened | nsubj |
| 40 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 parted | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 time | det |
| 42 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 43 time | amod |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 44 | also | also | ADV | _ | 40 happened | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | past | feathers = feather | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | past | each | King's own road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | the same thing | again; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | feathers = feather | each | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | feathers = feather | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | happen | past | it | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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