The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 133
And there happened in the end what should have happened in the beginning.
What happens: happen · To what, where: end, beginning
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 happened | cc |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 happened | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happened | aux |
| 10 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 beginning | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beginning | det |
| 13 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happened | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | there | in the end | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in end=Location | ||||
| 2 | happen | should · perfect | in the beginning | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in beginning=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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