The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 34
Well, it happened one day that these two, when out for an evening stroll, met under a cherry tree, and in one moment fell madly in love with each other.
Who acts: it · What happens: happen out, meet, fall · To what, where: cherry tree, love
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, 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 (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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 happened | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 two | mark |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 out | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 out | advmod |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 happened | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 stroll | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stroll | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 stroll | compound |
| 16 | stroll | stroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 met | punct |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | parataxis |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 21 | cherry | cherry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 met | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fell | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 moment | nummod |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 29 | madly | madly | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 love | case |
| 31 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 each | case |
| 33 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 28 fell | obl |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | fixed |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen out | past | it | day | for a evening stroll | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | past | a cherry tree | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | love | moment | with each; madly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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