The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 11
Now, it happened that about this time the King’s son was making a tour through the entire country to look out for a bride.
Who acts: it, son · What happens: happen, make, look out · To what, where: tour, entire country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, son), 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 making | mark |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 making | aux |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 happened | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tour | det |
| 16 | tour | tour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 19 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 look | mark |
| 22 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 making | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 look | compound:prt |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 bride | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 bride | det |
| 26 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 look | obl |
| 27 | . | . | 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 | make | past · progressive | the King's son | a tour | the entire country | time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tour=Product | ||
| 3 | look out | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | for a bride | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for bride=Theme |
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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