The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 34
Now it happened one day that the King of the land held a hunt in this wood, and saw the Snow-daughter wandering about in the open air.
Who acts: it, King, Snow daughter · What happens: happen, hold, see, wonder · To what, where: hunt, wood, Snow daughter, open air
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, King, Snow daughter), 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 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 held | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 held | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 King | nmod |
| 12 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 day | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hunt | det |
| 14 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 held | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunt | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 daughter | det |
| 22 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 daughter | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Snow | punct |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obj |
| 25 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 daughter | acl |
| 26 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 wandering | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 air | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 air | det |
| 29 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 air | amod |
| 30 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wandering | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | the King of the land | a hunt | this wood | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 3 | see | past | the Snow daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the Snow daughter not said here | the open air | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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