The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 116
Then it happened that little Gerda stepped into the hall.
Who acts: it, little Gerda · What happens: happen, step · To what, where: hall
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, little Gerda), 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 | Then | then | 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 stepped | mark |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Gerda | amod |
| 6 | Gerda | Gerda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | nsubj |
| 7 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stepped | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step | past | little Gerda | the hall | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hall=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/10/116/