More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 98

But days and days passed, and the new Moon never came, and the nights were aye dark, and the Evil Things were worse than ever.

Who acts: days, new Moon, nights, Evil Things · What happens: pass, not come, be

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, new Moon, nights, Evil Things), 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	_	5 passed	cc
2	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 days	cc
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 days	conj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Moon	det
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Moon	amod
10	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 came	advmod
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 passed	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dark	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nights	det
16	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 dark	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dark	cop
18	aye	aye	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 dark	amod
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 worse	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 worse	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Things	det
23	Evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Things	amod
24	Things	Thing	PROPN	Number=Plur	26 worse	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 worse	cop
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 dark	conj
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 ever	case
28	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	26 worse	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pass	past	days and days		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come	past	the new Moon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	the nights	dark property	tree rules
4	is	past	the Evil Things	bad property	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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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