The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 23
And so the days slipped away, and she was fourteen years old.
Who acts: days, Wildrose · What happens: slip away, be
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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, Wildrose), 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 slipped | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 slipped | nsubj |
| 5 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 slipped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 old | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 old | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 11 | fourteen | fourteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 old | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slipped | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | the days | away property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Wildrose | year | old 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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