The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 3, sentence 79
Now it happened shortly after this that an old man passed by, and seeing the flower, he was delighted with its beauty.
Who acts: it, old man, man · What happens: happen, pass by, see, be · To what, where: flower
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, old man, man), 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 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happened | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 passed | mark |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 passed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 delighted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 delighted | cc |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 delighted | csubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 delighted | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 delighted | cop |
| 21 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 passed | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 beauty | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 24 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 delighted | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | after this; now | shortly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass by | participle | a old man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | the flower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | past | man | with flower's beauty; delighted property | 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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