The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 98

It was in this way that death once overtook the Queen of the Fairies, and it became necessary to call a general assembly to elect a new sovereign.

Who acts: accident, death · What happens: be, overtake, become, call, elect · To what, where: way, general assembly, new sovereign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident, death), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 way	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 overtook	obj
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 overtook	nsubj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 overtook	advmod
9	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 way	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Queen	det
11	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 overtook	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Fairies	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairies	det
14	Fairies	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 Queen	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 became	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 became	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overtook	conj
19	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 became	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 call	mark
21	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 necessary	advcl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 assembly	det
23	general	general	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 assembly	amod
24	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 call	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 elect	mark
26	elect	elect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 call	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 sovereign	det
28	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sovereign	amod
29	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 elect	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	accident		this way		tree rules
2	overtake	past	death	this way		once property	tree rules
3	become	past	accident			necessary property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	call	to-infinitive	accident not said here	a general assembly			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent assembly=Recipient
5	elect	to-infinitive	accident not said here	a new sovereign			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme

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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