The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 48
Hans first arrived at a large estate, and it so happened that the squire himself was standing outside the farmyard.
Who acts: Hans, it, squire · What happens: arrive, happen, stand · To what, where: large estate, farmyard
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hans, it, squire), 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 | Hans | han | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 estate | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 estate | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 estate | amod |
| 7 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrived | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happened | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 happened | advmod |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrived | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 standing | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 squire | det |
| 15 | squire | squire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 squire | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 happened | advcl |
| 19 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 21 farmyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 farmyard | det |
| 21 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Hans | a large estate | first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the squire smith | the farmyard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside farmyard=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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