The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 9
And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him.
Who acts: it, prince, young beasts · What happens: happen, have, follow, pad · To what, where: bear
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, prince, young beasts), 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 | _ | 4 happened | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 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 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fox | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hare | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fox | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 boar | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 boar | det |
| 13 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hare | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bear | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bear | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bear | det |
| 17 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happened | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | conj |
| 23 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 following | det:predet |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 following | det |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 had | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 beasts | case |
| 27 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 beasts | amod |
| 28 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 following | obl |
| 29 | padding | pad | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 beasts | acl |
| 30 | along | along | ADV | _ | 29 padding | advmod |
| 31 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 padding | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | a bear | with a fox | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | each prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | of young beasts | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of beast=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | pad | gerund | young beasts not said here | behind fox; along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory |
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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