The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 54

The wind was fair, and in ten days the coast, which he had almost forgotten, stood clear before him.

Who acts: wind · What happens: be, forget, stand · To what, where: coast

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fair	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	cop
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stood	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stood	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 days	nummod
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 stood	obl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 coast	det
11	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 days	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 forgotten	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 forgotten	nsubj:pass
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 forgotten	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forgotten	aux
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 forgotten	advmod
17	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 coast	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 days	punct
19	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fair	conj
20	clear	clear	ADV	_	19 stood	advmod
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind			fair property	tree rules
2	forget	past · perfect · passive		the coast		almost property	tree rules
3	stand	past	the wind not said here		before king; day	clear property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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