The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 13
It is lucky for you that the serpent-king’s feast happens to fall this year, otherwise you would have had long to wait for it.
Who acts: bowl, feast, you · What happens: be, happen, fall, have, wait
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bowl, feast, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | cop |
| 3 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 lucky | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 happens | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 8 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 serpent | punct |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 happens | nsubj |
| 13 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fall | mark |
| 15 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 happens | xcomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fall | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 19 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 23 had | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 had | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 had | aux |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | aux |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 lucky | parataxis |
| 24 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 wait | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 wait | mark |
| 26 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 had | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 wait | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lucky | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bowl | for you; lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | the serpent king's feast | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | the serpent king's feast not said here | year | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | would · perfect | you | otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wait | to-infinitive | you not said here | for bowl; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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