The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 3

But anything which might happen indoors, or any bit of news which her husband might bring in when he had been anywhere, had to be told at once to the whole village, and these tales were repeated and altered till it often happened that much mischief was made, and the old man’s back paid for it.

Who acts: anything, husband, it, back · What happens: happen, bring in, be, have, tell, repeat · To what, where: bit, whole village, tales, much mischief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anything, husband, it, back), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 happen	cc
2	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 happen	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 anything	nmod
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	5 happen	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bit	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 bit	cc
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 bit	det
10	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happen	obl:unmarked
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 news	case
12	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nmod
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 bring	obj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 husband	nmod:poss
15	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	nsubj
16	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 bring	aux
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bit	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 bring	compound:prt
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 anywhere	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 anywhere	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 anywhere	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 anywhere	cop
23	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 bring	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 had	punct
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 anywhere	parataxis
26	to	to	PART	_	28 told	mark
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 told	aux:pass
28	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 had	xcomp
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 once	case
30	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 told	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 village	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 village	det
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 village	amod
34	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 told	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 repeated	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 repeated	cc
37	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 tales	det
38	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 repeated	nsubj:pass
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 repeated	aux:pass
40	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 had	parataxis
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 altered	cc
42	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 repeated	conj
43	till	till	SCONJ	_	46 happened	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 happened	nsubj
45	often	often	ADV	_	46 happened	advmod
46	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 altered	ccomp
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 made	mark
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mischief	amod
49	mischief	mischief	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 made	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 made	aux:pass
51	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 happened	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 paid	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 paid	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 man	det
55	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 man	amod
56	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 back	nmod:poss
57	’s	's	PART	_	56 man	case
58	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 paid	nsubj
59	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 repeated	conj
60	for	for	ADP	_	61 it	case
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 paid	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	might	anything	any bit of news		indoors property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bring in	might	woman's husband	any bit of news			vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Asset
3	is	past · perfect	husband			anywhere property	tree rules
4	have	past					tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive · passive			the whole village		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: to village=Recipient
6	repeat	past · passive		this tales			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
7	alter	participle					tree rules
8	happen	past	it			often property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	make	past · passive		much mischief			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
10	pay	past	the old man's back			for mischief	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme

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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