The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 43
But on the wedding-day it happened that a stranger came to the town with three black dogs.
Who acts: it, stranger · What happens: happen, come · To what, where: town
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 (it, stranger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 happened | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 4 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wedding | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stranger | det |
| 11 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 town | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 dogs | case |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 dogs | nummod |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dogs | amod |
| 19 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a stranger | the town | with three black dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location |
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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