The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 81
However, there came a day at last when it slipped in quite easily.
Who acts: sword · What happens: come, slip in · To what, where: last
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sword), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 came | expl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 last | case |
| 8 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 slipped | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slipped | nsubj |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 slipped | advmod |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 easily | advmod |
| 14 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 slipped | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | last; there | day | however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 2 | slip in | past | sword | easily property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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