The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 81

Loud were the wails in the hut by the sea when the hours passed on and the maiden came not.

Who acts: Loud, hours, maiden · What happens: be, pass on, not come · To what, where: wails, hut

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loud, hours, maiden), 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	Loud	Loud	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 wails	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wails	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wails	det
4	wails	wail	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hut	det
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wails	nmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hut	nmod
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 passed	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hours	det
13	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wails	parataxis
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 passed	compound:prt
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	conj
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 came	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wails	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Loud	the wails	the hut by the sea	tree rules
2	pass on	past	the hours			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not come	past	the maiden			vn escape-51.1-1 «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 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/81/