The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 57
When the third Thursday evening came, everything happened exactly as it had happened on the two former occasions.
Who acts: third Thursday evening, everything, it · What happens: come, happen · To what, where: two former occasions
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, 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 (third Thursday evening, everything, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 evening | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 evening | amod |
| 4 | Thursday | Thursday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 evening | compound |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 8 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 9 happened | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 happened | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 happened | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 occasions | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 occasions | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 occasions | nummod |
| 18 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 occasions | amod |
| 19 | occasions | occasion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 happened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the third Thursday evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | everything | exactly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | it | the two former occasions | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on occasion=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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