The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 3
Now it happened that a war broke out with the king of a neighbouring country, and the queen was left in the palace alone.
Who acts: it, war · What happens: happen, break out, neighbour, leave · To what, where: queen, palace
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, war), 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 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 broke | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 war | det |
| 6 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | nsubj |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 broke | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 country | det |
| 14 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 country | amod |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 queen | det |
| 19 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 left | aux:pass |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 palace | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 21 left | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | break out | past | a war | with the king of a neighbouring country | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with king=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | the queen | the palace | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in palace=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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