The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 97
It happened one day that when they were all standing together by the tree that a young knight came riding along.
Who acts: It, one day, young knight · What happens: happen, stand together, come, ride along
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, one day, young knight), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 standing | nsubj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 standing | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 standing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | aux |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 standing | advmod |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 standing | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 knight | amod |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | advcl |
| 20 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 came | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 riding | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand together | past · progressive | one day | by the tree; all, together property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a young knight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ride along | gerund | a young knight not said here | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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