The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 45
Now, it happened about this time that the merchant, Mark, came to the monastery in the course of a journey.
Who acts: it, merchant · What happens: happen, come · To what, where: course
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, merchant), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Mark | punct |
| 12 | Mark | Mark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 merchant | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 merchant | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 monastery | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 monastery | det |
| 17 | monastery | monastery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 course | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 course | det |
| 20 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 journey | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 journey | det |
| 23 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 course | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the merchant | the course of a journey | to the monastery | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to monastery=Initial_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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