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The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 12

Now on this particular day, it so happened that the Queen lost her favourite ring, and suspicion fell on the confidential servant who had access to all parts of the palace.

Who acts: it, Queen, suspicion, confidential servant · What happens: happen, lose, fall, have · To what, where: favourite ring, confidential servant, access

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Queen, suspicion, confidential servant), 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

advmodcasedetamodoblpunctnsubjadvmodmarkdetnsubjadvclnmod:possamodobjpunctccnsubjconjcasedetamodoblnsubjacl:relclobjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootNowADVonADPthisDETparticularADJdayNOUN,PUNCTitPRONsoADVhappenedVERBthatSCONJtheDETQueenPROPNlostVERBherPRONfavouriteADJringNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsuspicionNOUNfellVERBonADPtheDETconfidentialADJservantNOUNwhoPRONhadVERBaccessNOUNtoADPallDETpartsNOUNofADPtheDETpalaceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem9 happenedadvmod
2ononADP_5 daycase
3thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem5 daydet
4particularparticularADJDegree=Pos5 dayamod
5daydayNOUNNumber=Sing9 happenedobl
6,,PUNCT_5 daypunct
7ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 happenednsubj
8sosoADV_9 happenedadvmod
9happenedhappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10thatthatSCONJ_13 lostmark
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 Queendet
12QueenQueenPROPNNumber=Sing13 lostnsubj
13lostloseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 happenedadvcl
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 ringnmod:poss
15favouritefavouriteADJDegree=Pos16 ringamod
16ringringNOUNNumber=Sing13 lostobj
17,,PUNCT_20 fellpunct
18andandCCONJ_20 fellcc
19suspicionsuspicionNOUNNumber=Sing20 fellnsubj
20fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 happenedconj
21ononADP_24 servantcase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 servantdet
23confidentialconfidentialADJDegree=Pos24 servantamod
24servantservantNOUNNumber=Sing20 fellobl
25whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 hadnsubj
26hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 servantacl:relcl
27accessaccessNOUNNumber=Sing26 hadobj
28totoADP_30 partscase
29allallDETPronType=Tot30 partsdet
30partspartNOUNNumber=Plur27 accessnmod
31ofofADP_33 palacecase
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 palacedet
33palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing30 partsnmod
34..PUNCT_9 happenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpastitnow; dayvn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2losepastthe QueenQueen's favourite ringvn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality
3fallpastsuspicionthe confidential servantvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on servant=Location
4havepastthe confidential servantaccessto all parts of the palacevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=Patient

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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