The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 46
Many hours had now passed since the girl had fallen down the well, and the sun was setting.
Who acts: girl, sun · What happens: pass, fall down, set · To what, where: Many hours, well
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sun), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hours | amod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 passed | advmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 fallen | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 well | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 13 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 setting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 setting | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sun | det |
| 17 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 setting | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 setting | aux |
| 19 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Many hours | now | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall down | past · perfect | the girl | the well | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient well=Result | ||||
| 3 | set | past · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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