The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 1, sentence 8

But there happened to be among them a Fairy from a far country about whom they knew nothing, though her name had been written on the first page of the list.

Who acts: Fairies, most · What happens: happen, be, know, write, name, page · To what, where: Fairy, far country, nothing, name, first page, list

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairies, most), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 happened	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 happened	expl
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	7 them	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 them	cop
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Fairy	det
9	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl:unmarked
10	from	from	ADP	_	13 country	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 country	det
12	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 country	amod
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happened	obl
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 country	nmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whom	acl:relcl
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 knew	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 written	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	25 written	mark
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 written	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 written	aux
24	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 written	aux:pass
25	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happened	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	29 page	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 page	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 page	amod
29	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 written	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 list	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 list	det
32	list	list	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 page	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past		a Fairy	a far country; there		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive				among Fairies = fairy	tree rules
3	know	past	Fairies = fairy	nothing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
4	write	past · perfect · passive		most's name	the first page of the list		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on page=Destination
5	name		most				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent
6	page			the list			nom page «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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