The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 85
Thus a year and a day slipped by, and at the end of it Gorla of the Flocks and his wife seemed suddenly to have grown old.
Who acts: Gorla · What happens: slip by, seem, grow · To what, where: day, end
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 (Gorla), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 year | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 day | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 year | conj |
| 7 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 day | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 slipped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 seemed | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 end | nmod |
| 16 | Gorla | Gorla | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Flocks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Flocks | det |
| 19 | Flocks | Flock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 Gorla | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wife | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Gorla | conj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 seemed | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 grown | mark |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 grown | aux |
| 27 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 grown | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip by | participle | a day not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | Gorla of the Flocks and sound's wife | at the end of end; year | suddenly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive · perfect | Gorla of the Flocks and sound's wife not said here | old 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 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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