The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 6
It came to pass, one night, as he was going through a great wood, that a terrible storm came on.
Who acts: youngest, husbandman, terrible storm · What happens: come, pass, go, come on · To what, where: great wood
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, husbandman, terrible storm), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 pass | mark |
| 4 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 came | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 night | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 night | nummod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pass | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 came | advcl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 wood | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 wood | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 wood | amod |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 came | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 storm | det |
| 20 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 storm | amod |
| 21 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | parataxis |
| 23 | on | on | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | youngest = young | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | youngest = young not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past · progressive | husbandman | a great wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | come on | past | a terrible storm | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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