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The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 86

It happened once that a king, who had a great kingdom and three sons, became blind, and no human skill or art could restore to him his sight.

Who acts: It, king, human skill · What happens: happen, have, become, restore, sight · To what, where: great kingdom, sight, king

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, king, human skill), 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

nsubjmarkmarkdetnsubjpunctnsubjadvcldetamodobjccnummodconjpunctadvclxcomppunctccdetamodnsubjccconjauxconjcaseoblnmod:possobjpunctrootItPRONhappenedVERBonceSCONJthatSCONJaDETkingNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONhadVERBaDETgreatADJkingdomNOUNandCCONJthreeNUMsonsNOUN,PUNCTbecameVERBblindADJ,PUNCTandCCONJnoDEThumanADJskillNOUNorCCONJartNOUNcouldAUXrestoreVERBtoADPhimPRONhisPRONsightNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 happenednsubj
2happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3onceonceSCONJ_17 becamemark
4thatthatSCONJ_9 hadmark
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 kingdet
6kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing9 hadnsubj
7,,PUNCT_9 hadpunct
8whowhoPRONPronType=Rel9 hadnsubj
9hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 becameadvcl
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 kingdomdet
11greatgreatADJDegree=Pos12 kingdomamod
12kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing9 hadobj
13andandCCONJ_15 sonscc
14threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card15 sonsnummod
15sonssonNOUNNumber=Plur12 kingdomconj
16,,PUNCT_17 becamepunct
17becamebecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 happenedadvcl
18blindblindADJDegree=Pos17 becamexcomp
19,,PUNCT_27 restorepunct
20andandCCONJ_27 restorecc
21nonoDETPronType=Neg23 skilldet
22humanhumanADJDegree=Pos23 skillamod
23skillskillNOUNNumber=Sing27 restorensubj
24ororCCONJ_25 artcc
25artartNOUNNumber=Sing23 skillconj
26couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin27 restoreaux
27restorerestoreVERBVerbForm=Inf2 happenedconj
28totoADP_29 himcase
29himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 restoreobl
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 sightnmod:poss
31sightsightNOUNNumber=Sing27 restoreobj
32..PUNCT_2 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastItvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2havepasta kinga great kingdom and three sonsvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Patient
3becomepastblind propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4restorecouldno human skill or artking's sightkingvn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sight=Theme to he=Recipient
5sightkingnom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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