Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 21
Now it happened that a Sparrow had hatched out her young in a nest just over his house door also.
Who acts: it · What happens: happen, hatch out · To what, where: Sparrow, nest
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 hatched | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Sparrow | det |
| 6 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hatched | aux |
| 8 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 happened | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hatched | compound:prt |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 young | nmod:poss |
| 11 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hatched | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hatched | obl |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 door | advmod |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 door | compound |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hatched | obl |
| 20 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 hatched | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hatch out | past · perfect · passive | a Sparrow | a nest | over change's house door; story's young obj | tree rules |
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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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