The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 111

One year it happened that they owned a pretty little bull-calf, which they called Peter.

Who acts: it, children · What happens: happen, own, call · To what, where: little bull calf · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, children), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 year	nummod
2	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl:unmarked
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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 owned	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 owned	nsubj
7	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 calf	det
9	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	10 little	advmod
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 calf	amod
11	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 calf	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 bull	punct
13	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 owned	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 called	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj
17	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 calf	acl:relcl
18	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	past	it		year	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	own	past	children = child	a little bull calf		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot calf=Theme
3	call	past	children = child	a little bull calf		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient

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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