The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 13
In this way six years passed by, and his eighteenth birthday drew near.
Who acts: eighteenth birthday · What happens: pass by, draw · To what, where: way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eighteenth birthday), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 drew | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 birthday | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eighteenth | eighteenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 birthday | amod |
| 12 | birthday | birthday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drew | nsubj |
| 13 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 14 | near | near | ADV | _ | 13 drew | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | this way | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | boy's eighteenth birthday | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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