The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 36
While the food lasted they were all three as happy as kings; but there soon arrived a day when the larder was as empty as ever.
Who acts: food, skins, larder · What happens: last, be, arrive
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food, skins, larder), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 lasted | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 food | det |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lasted | nsubj |
| 4 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 three | advmod |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 happy | case |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lasted | ccomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 kings | case |
| 12 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 happy | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | cc |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lasted | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 empty | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 larder | det |
| 22 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 empty | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 empty | cop |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 empty | advmod |
| 25 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arrived | advcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 ever | case |
| 27 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 25 empty | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the food | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | skins = skin | as kings; happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the food not said here | there | day | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 4 | is | past | the larder | empty 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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