The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 58
But in the meantime the Prince, with the help of his ring, had had a most successful journey, and no evil had befallen him.
What happens: have, befall, help · To what, where: successful journey, meantime, evil, ring
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 meantime | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meantime | det |
| 4 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 meantime | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 help | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 help | det |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 meantime | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ring | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ring | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 meantime | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 had | aux |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 journey | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 successful | advmod |
| 19 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 journey | amod |
| 20 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 befallen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 befallen | cc |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 evil | det |
| 24 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 befallen | aux |
| 26 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 had | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 befallen | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past · perfect | a successful journey | the meantime and the help of King's ring | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Patient | ||||
| 2 | befall | past · perfect · passive | no evil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | help | King's ring | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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