The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 37
A week passed away, and when the prince never came back everyone in the town began to grow uneasy.
Who acts: prince, everyone · What happens: pass away, not come back, begin, grow
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, everyone), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 week | det |
| 2 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 came | advmod |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 began | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 everyone | nmod |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 grow | mark |
| 19 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 grow | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | week | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not come back | past | the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | everyone | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | grow | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | uneasy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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