The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 22

It happened that one day he went through a thick wood, and when he came to the end of it there lay in the plain before him a large castle.

Who acts: It, Hunter · What happens: happen, go, come, lie · To what, where: thick wood, large castle, plain

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Hunter), 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	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl:unmarked
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 wood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wood	det
10	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wood	amod
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 came	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 happened	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 end	nmod
22	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 lay	advmod
23	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 came	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 plain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 plain	det
26	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obl
27	before	before	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lay	obl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 castle	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 castle	amod
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Hunter		a thick wood	day	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
3	come	past	Hunter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lie	past		a large castle	the plain; there	to the end of end; before Hunter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in plain=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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