The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 150
He went into the first house he came to, and this happened to be the house of the King’s hen-wife.
Who acts: Irishman, this · What happens: go, come, happen, be · To what, where: first house, house
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 house | amod |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 house | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | too | ADV | Typo=Yes | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happened | cc |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 house | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 house | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happened | advcl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 wife | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 King | case |
| 22 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wife | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 hen | punct |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Irishman | the first house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Irishman | the first house not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | this not said here | the house | of the King's hen wife | tree rules |
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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