The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 68

The neighbourhood was quite bare and desert, and it was a good thing that the new prince had brought food for some time with him, as two days were still wanting till the appointed time.

Who acts: neighbourhood · What happens: be, bring, want, appoint · To what, where: good thing, new prince

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbourhood), 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 neighbourhood	det
2	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bare	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 bare	advmod
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 desert	cc
7	desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bare	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thing	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 thing	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 thing	det
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bare	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 brought	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
17	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 prince	amod
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thing	advcl
21	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 time	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 time	det
24	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 time	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wanting	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 wanting	mark
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 days	nummod
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 wanting	obl:unmarked
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 wanting	aux
32	still	still	ADV	_	33 wanting	advmod
33	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 brought	advcl
34	till	till	ADP	_	37 time	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 time	det
36	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 time	amod
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wanting	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 bare	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the neighbourhood			bare property	tree rules
2	be		the neighbourhood not said here				tree rules
3	is a	past	neighbourhood	a good thing			tree rules
4	bring	past · perfect · passive		the new prince	time		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination food=Theme
5	want	past · progressive			still; day; time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
6	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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