The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 23
Now, as it happened, this inn was a regular resort of a band of murderers, and the old witch too was in the habit of frequenting it.
Who acts: it, inn, old witch, habit · What happens: happen, be, frequent · To what, where: regular resort, habit, inn
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, inn, old witch, habit), 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 | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 happened | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resort | punct |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 inn | det |
| 8 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resort | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 resort | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 resort | det |
| 11 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 resort | amod |
| 12 | resort | resort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 band | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 band | det |
| 15 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 resort | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 murderers | case |
| 17 | murderers | murderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 band | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 habit | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 habit | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 witch | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 witch | amod |
| 22 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 habit | nsubj |
| 23 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 habit | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 habit | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 habit | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 habit | det |
| 27 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | obl |
| 28 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 29 frequenting | mark |
| 29 | frequenting | frequent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 habit | acl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 frequenting | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 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 | is a | past | this inn | a regular resort | of a band of murderers | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | the old witch | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | frequent | gerund | the habit not said here | inn | 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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