The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 28
It must be months since that fish went away.'
Who acts: creature, fish · What happens: be, go away · To what, where: months
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creature, fish), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 months | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 months | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 months | cop |
| 4 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 went | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 8 went | mark |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | creature | months | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go away | past | that fish | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 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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