The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 74
Mid-day came, then evening, then midnight, and still no Master Peter appeared, and the matter became really serious.
Who acts: Mid-day, Master, matter · What happens: come, appear, become
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mid-day, Master, matter), 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 | Mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 evening | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 evening | advmod |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 midnight | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 midnight | advmod |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 appeared | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 appeared | advmod |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 Master | det |
| 13 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Master | appos |
| 15 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 matter | det |
| 19 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 serious | advmod |
| 22 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Mid-day | evening; midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | no Master | still | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the matter | serious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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