The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 17
It so happened that each found a good master, where he learnt all that was necessary for his trade in the best possible way.
Who acts: It, each, masterpiece, that · What happens: happen, find, learn, be, trade · To what, where: good master, best possible way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, each, masterpiece, that), 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 | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 found | mark |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 master | amod |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 learnt | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 learnt | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 learnt | nsubj |
| 13 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 master | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 necessary | det:predet |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 necessary | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 necessary | cop |
| 17 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 learnt | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 trade | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 trade | nmod:poss |
| 20 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 necessary | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 way | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 way | amod |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 way | amod |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 learnt | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | each | a good master | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 3 | learn | past | masterpiece | the best possible way | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | for masterpiece's trade; necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | trade | masterpiece | nom trade «act 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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