The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 116
It happened soon after that the second brother returned from his wanderings and came to the cross-roads where the three birches grew.
Who acts: It, second brother, three birches, master · What happens: happen, return, come, grow, wander · To what, where: wanderings, cross-roads
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, second brother, three birches, master), 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 | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 happened | advmod |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 returned | mark |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 returned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 wanderings | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 happened | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 cross-roads | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cross-roads | det |
| 17 | cross-roads | cross-road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 grew | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birches | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 birches | nummod |
| 21 | birches | birch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cross-roads | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the second brother | master's wanderings | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wandering=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the cross-roads | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cross-road=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | the three birches | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | wander | master | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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