The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 91
Now the story goes back to the King’s hall, where strange things had happened in the meantime.
Who acts: story, strange things · What happens: go back, happen · To what, where: meantime
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, strange things), 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 | 4 goes | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 goes | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hall | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 King | case |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 happened | advmod |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 things | amod |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | aux |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hall | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 meantime | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meantime | det |
| 19 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 happened | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | present | the story | now | to the King's hall result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hall=Result | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | strange things | the meantime | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in meantime=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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