The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 22
Now, it happened that the king to whom this wood belonged was hunting in it.
Who acts: it, wood, king · What happens: happen, belong, hunt · To what, where: wood
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, wood, king), 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 | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 hunting | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hunting | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 belonged | nsubj |
| 12 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hunting | aux |
| 14 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hunting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | belong | past | this wood | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hunt | past · progressive | the king | wood | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location |
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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