The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 21
This year the lot had fallen on the King’s daughter, and the whole country was filled with woe and lamentation in consequence.
Who acts: lot · What happens: fall, fill · To what, where: whole country
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lot | det |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fallen | aux |
| 6 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 King | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fallen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 filled | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 country | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 country | amod |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 filled | aux:pass |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fallen | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 woe | case |
| 20 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lamentation | cc |
| 22 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 woe | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 consequence | case |
| 24 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lamentation | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | the lot | year | on the King's daughter | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on daughter=Location | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | the whole country | with woe and lamentation in consequence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with woe=Instrument |
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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