English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 15

One day it happened that the Baron went out hunting with some companions along the banks of the River Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman's hut to get a drink, and the girl came out to give it to them.

Who acts: it, Baron, girl · What happens: happen, go out, hunt, stop, get, come out · To what, where: banks, hut, drink, companions

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Baron, girl), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	obl:unmarked
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Baron	det
7	Baron	Baron	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 went	compound:prt
10	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 went	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 companions	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 companions	det
13	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunting	obl
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banks	det
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunting	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 Ouse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Ouse	det
19	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Ouse	compound
20	Ouse	Ouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 banks	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stopped	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stopped	cc
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	28 hut	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fisherman	det
26	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hut	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 fisherman	case
28	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stopped	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 stopped	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 drink	det
32	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 came	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 came	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 girl	det
36	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 came	nsubj
37	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	conj
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 came	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 give	mark
40	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 came	xcomp
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 give	obj
42	to	to	ADP	_	43 them	case
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 give	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 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	go out	past	the Baron						tree rules
3	hunt	gerund	the Baron not said here			the banks of the River Ouse		with some companions	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along bank=Location
4	stop	past				the fisherman's hut			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location
5	get	to-infinitive		a drink					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus
6	come out	past	the girl					out property	tree rules
7	give	to-infinitive	the girl not said here	drink	companions = companion				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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