The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 6
It was now the beginning of summer, and each day the sun blazed more fiercely.
Who acts: joy, sun · What happens: be, blaze · To what, where: beginning
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (joy, sun), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beginning | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 beginning | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 beginning | det |
| 5 | beginning | beginning | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 summer | case |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beginning | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 blazed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blazed | cc |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blazed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blazed | nsubj |
| 14 | blazed | blaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beginning | conj |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 fiercely | advmod |
| 16 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 14 blazed | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | joy | the beginning | now; summer | tree rules | |||
| 2 | blaze | past | the sun | day | fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «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: «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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