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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 happened | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 4 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 happened | advmod |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Queen | det |
| 12 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | advcl |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ring | nmod:poss |
| 15 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ring | amod |
| 16 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fell | cc |
| 19 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 happened | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 servant | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 servant | det |
| 23 | confidential | confidential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 servant | amod |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 servant | acl:relcl |
| 27 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 parts | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 parts | det |
| 30 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 access | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 palace | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 palace | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 parts | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | the Queen | Queen's favourite ring | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | suspicion | the confidential servant | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on servant=Location | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the confidential servant | access | to all parts of the palace | vn 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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