The Green Fairy Book, Jack My Hedgehog, sentence 22
As he was playing one day a King, who had lost his way, happened to pass close by, and hearing the music he was much surprised, and sent one of his servants to find out where it came from.
Who acts: cock, King, music · What happens: play, lose, happen, pass, hear, be · To what, where: King, way, music, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jack My Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, King, music), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 playing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 playing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 playing | aux |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 happened | advcl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 day | nummod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lost | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lost | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 King | acl:relcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 pass | mark |
| 18 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 happened | xcomp |
| 19 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 pass | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 pass | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 surprised | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 surprised | cc |
| 23 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 surprised | csubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 music | det |
| 25 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hearing | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 surprised | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 surprised | cop |
| 28 | much | much | ADV | _ | 29 surprised | advmod |
| 29 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 happened | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sent | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sent | cc |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 happened | parataxis |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 sent | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 servants | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 servants | nmod:poss |
| 36 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 sent | advcl |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 find | compound:prt |
| 40 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 came | advmod |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 came | nsubj |
| 42 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 find | ccomp |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 came | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | cock | a King | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | a King | cock's way | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | happen | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | close property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hear | gerund | the music | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | is | past | cock | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | send | past | one of cock's servants | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 8 | find out | to-infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 9 | come | past | music | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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