The Green Fairy Book, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine, sentence 11

Now it happened that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods lived in the lovely valley to which chance had led the poor fugitives, and it was she who had, in pity for their forlorn condition, sent the King such good luck to his fishing, and generally taken them under her protection.

Who acts: it, Fairy, chance, King, Fish · What happens: happen, live, lead, be, have, send · To what, where: lovely valley, chance, Fairy, pity, fishing, King

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Fairy, chance, King), 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	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lived	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 lived	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 Woods	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Woods	det
9	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Woods	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 Beech	punct
11	Woods	Woods	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 Fairy	nmod
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 valley	det
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 valley	amod
16	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lived	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 led	obl
19	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 led	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 led	aux
21	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 valley	acl:relcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fugitives	det
23	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fugitives	amod
24	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 led	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 she	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 she	cop
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 pity	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 pity	case
34	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 condition	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 condition	nmod:poss
37	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 condition	amod
38	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 pity	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sent	punct
40	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	conj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 luck	det
42	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 luck	nsubj
43	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 luck	amod
44	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 luck	amod
45	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sent	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 fishing	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 fishing	nmod:poss
48	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sent	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 taken	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 taken	cc
51	generally	generally	ADV	_	52 taken	advmod
52	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	conj
53	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 taken	obj
54	under	under	ADP	_	56 protection	case
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 protection	nmod:poss
56	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 taken	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	the Fairy of the Beech Woods		the lovely valley			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Location
3	lead	past · perfect · passive		chance			to the lovely valley	tree rules
4	is a	past	chance	Fairy				tree rules
5	have	past	Fairy	pity			for King's forlorn condition	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
6	send	past	Fairy not said here		Fish's fishing			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to fishing=Destination
7	luck		King					tree rules
8	take	participle		King	Fairy's protection		generally property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	condition		King					nom condition «state transitive»: poss=agent
10	fish		Fish					nom fishing «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	protect		Fairy					nom protection «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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