The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 2

It happened that their parents were not on terms of friendship with one another, on account of some old quarrel, which had, however, taken place so long ago, that they had quite forgotten what it was all about, and only kept up the feud from force of habit.

Who acts: It, parents, old quarrel, place · What happens: happen, not be, have, take, forget, be · To what, where: terms, taken place, feud, force, old quarrel

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, parents, old quarrel, place), 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	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 terms	mark
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 parents	nmod:poss
5	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 terms	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 terms	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 terms	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 terms	case
9	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 happened	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 friendship	case
11	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terms	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 friendship	appos
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	fixed
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 account	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 account	case
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 terms	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 quarrel	case
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	21 quarrel	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 quarrel	amod
21	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 account	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 quarrel	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 place	punct
26	however	however	ADV	_	28 taken	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 however	punct
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 place	amod
29	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 long	advmod
31	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 ago	advmod
32	ago	ago	ADV	_	24 had	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forgotten	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 forgotten	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forgotten	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 forgotten	aux
37	quite	quite	ADV	_	38 forgotten	advmod
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 had	parataxis
39	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 forgotten	obj
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 about	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 about	cop
42	all	all	ADV	_	43 about	advmod
43	about	about	ADV	_	39 what	acl:relcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 kept	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 kept	cc
46	only	only	ADV	_	47 kept	advmod
47	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 forgotten	conj
48	up	up	ADP	_	47 kept	compound:prt
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 feud	det
50	feud	feud	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 kept	obj
51	from	from	ADP	_	52 force	case
52	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 kept	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 habit	case
54	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 force	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	It				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not is	past	children's parents		terms and account of some old quarrel	of friendship	tree rules
3	have	past	some old quarrel	taken place		ago property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
4	take	participle				however property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	forget	past · perfect	parents = parent				tree rules
6	is	past	place			about, all property	tree rules
7	keep up	participle	parents = parent not said here	the feud	force of habit		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent feud=Theme
8	account			some old quarrel			nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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