The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 85

There was only a year between them, and they loved each other so much that they could do nothing apart.

Who acts: year, people · What happens: be, love, do · To what, where: each, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, people), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 year	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	between	between	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 year	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 loved	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 loved	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 loved	nsubj
11	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	11 loved	obj
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 do	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 loved	advcl
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 do	obj
21	apart	apart	ADV	_	19 do	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a year between people		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	love	past	people	each			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
3	do	could	people	nothing		apart property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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