The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 2
Now it happened that there was a man who had married a second time, and his wife heard of the lindorm with great delight.
Who acts: it, man, wife · What happens: happen, be, marry, hear · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, man, wife), 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 | Now | now | 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 | _ | 6 was | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 married | aux |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heard | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heard | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 lindorm | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lindorm | det |
| 22 | lindorm | lindorm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 delight | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 delight | amod |
| 25 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heard | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a man | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | marry | past · perfect · passive | a man | time | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | man's wife | of the lindorm; with great delight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of lindorm=Stimulus |
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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