The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 30
As luck would have it, he caught the golden fish a second time.
Who acts: luck · What happens: have, catch · To what, where: fishing, golden fish
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luck), 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 have | mark |
| 2 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 caught | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fish | amod |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | luck | fishing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | luck | the golden fish | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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