The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 26

After some years passed in this way, she heard that the daughter of the king of the country she was living in was going to marry a Prince called ‘Fickle.’

Who acts: Helena, daughter · What happens: pass, hear, live, go, marry, call · To what, where: way, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena, daughter), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 years	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 years	det
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passed	obl
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 way	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 living	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 daughter	det
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 living	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 king	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 king	nmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 living	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 living	aux
22	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 heard	ccomp
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	25 going	mark
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 going	aux
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 living	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 going	xcomp
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 Prince	det
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 marry	obj
30	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 Prince	acl
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 Fickle	punct
32	Fickle	Fickle	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 called	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	pass	past			this way	year	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
2	hear	past	Helena				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	live	past · progressive	the daughter of the king of the country				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past · progressive	the daughter of the king of the country not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry	to-infinitive	the daughter of the king of the country not said here	a Prince			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient
6	call	participle		a Prince not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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