The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 237
Then it happened to get both life and wealth, but now it had no honour with its master.
Who acts: it, tongue · What happens: happen, get, have · To what, where: life, honour
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, tongue), 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 | Then | then | 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 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happened | xcomp |
| 6 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 7 life | cc:preconj |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wealth | cc |
| 9 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 had | cc |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 had | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 honour | det |
| 16 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 master | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 honour | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | life and wealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer life=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | tongue | no honour | now | with tongue's master | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=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 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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