The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 35
After that the hot sun ripened them quickly, and soon harvest time was come.
Who acts: hot sun · What happens: ripen, come · To what, where: heads, harvest time
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 ripened | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sun | amod |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ripened | nsubj |
| 6 | ripened | ripen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ripened | obj |
| 8 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 ripened | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 come | advmod |
| 12 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | compound |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux:pass |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ripened | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ripened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripen | past | the hot sun | heads = head | after that | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||
| 2 | come | past · passive | harvest time | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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 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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