The Green Fairy Book, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, sentence 24

Now it happened that the cat and dog met each other on their travels, and though they had not been the best of friends at home, they were quite glad to meet among strangers.

Who acts: it, cat · What happens: happen, meet, travel, be · To what, where: each

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The War of the Wolf and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, cat), 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	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 met	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 met	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dog	cc
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cat	conj
9	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	advcl
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	9 met	obj
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 travels	mark
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 travels	nmod:poss
14	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 met	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 best	cc
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 been	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 been	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 been	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 been	advmod
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 best	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 best	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 happened	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 friends	case
25	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 best	nmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 friends	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 glad	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 glad	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 glad	cop
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 glad	advmod
32	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happened	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 meet	mark
34	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 glad	xcomp
35	among	among	ADP	_	36 strangers	case
36	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 meet	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it		now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	the cat and dog	each			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent
3	travel	present	the cat and dog not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	participle				of friends at home; good property	tree rules
5	is	past	cat			glad property	tree rules
6	meet	to-infinitive	cat not said here			among strangers	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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