The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 105
It happened one evening that there arose a raging storm, with mist and darkness.
Who acts: It · What happens: happen, arise, rage · To what, where: one evening
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evening | nummod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 arose | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 arose | advmod |
| 7 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 evening | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 storm | det |
| 9 | raging | rage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 storm | amod |
| 10 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arose | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mist | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 mist | case |
| 13 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 storm | appos |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 darkness | cc |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mist | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | evening | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arise | past | one evening | there | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rage | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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