The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 93

The same thing happened to the third rogue, so that they were now all three without wives.

Who acts: same thing, things · What happens: happen, be

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, 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 (same thing, things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 rogue	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rogue	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 rogue	amod
8	rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wives	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 wives	case
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wives	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wives	cop
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 wives	advmod
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 wives	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 wives	nummod
17	without	without	ADP	_	18 wives	case
18	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happened	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the same thing					to the third rogue	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	things = thing				now	so all three wives	tree rules

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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