More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 99
And still the days went on, and the new Moon never came.
Who acts: days, new Moon · What happens: go on, not come
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 went | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Moon | det |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Moon | amod |
| 11 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 13 came | advmod |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the days | still | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not come | past | the new Moon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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