The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 1

The shirt-collar was so old that he began to think about marrying; and it happened one day that he and a garter came into the wash-tub together.

Who acts: shirt collar, he, it · What happens: be, begin, think, marry, happen, come · To what, where: wash tub

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shirt collar, he, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 collar	det
2	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collar	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 shirt	punct
4	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 old	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 old	advmod
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 began	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 think	mark
12	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	about	about	SCONJ	_	14 marrying	mark
14	marrying	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 think	advcl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 happened	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 old	conj
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 happened	obl:unmarked
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 came	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 garter	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 garter	det
25	garter	garter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 he	conj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	31 tub	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tub	det
29	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tub	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 wash	punct
31	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
32	together	together	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 old	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the shirt collar			old property	tree rules
2	begin	past	he				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	marry	gerund	he not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	happen	past	it		day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	he	the wash tub		together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tub=Initial_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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