The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 83
And they went their way into the town, and all happened as the King of the Snakes had said.
Who acts: companions · What happens: go, happen, say · To what, where: way, town, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 way | nmod:poss |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happened | cc |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 happened | advmod |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 King | det |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Snakes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Snakes | det |
| 18 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 King | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | aux |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 happened | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | companions = companion | companions's way | the town | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | |||
| 2 | happen | past | companions = companion not said here | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the King of the Snakes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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