The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 52

The great day appeared to Diamantina to be long in coming, but, like other days, it came at last.

Who acts: great day, person · What happens: appear, be, come · To what, where: Diamantina, last

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great day, person), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Diamantina	case
6	Diamantina	Diamantina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	9 long	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 long	cop
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 appeared	advcl
10	in	in	SCONJ	_	11 coming	mark
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 long	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 but	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 days	case
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 days	amod
17	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 days	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 appeared	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 came	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the great day	Diamantina				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the great day not said here				long property	tree rules
3	come	gerund	the great day not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	person		last	day		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location

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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