The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 260
Now it happened one day that a Prince came to the wood and passed by the Dwarfs’ house.
Who acts: it, Prince · What happens: happen, come, pass · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 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 | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 came | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dwarfs | det |
| 17 | Dwarfs | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 17 Dwarfs | case |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | 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 | come | past | a Prince | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pass | participle | a Prince not said here | by the Dwarfs's house | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by house=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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