The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 43

A few months after his arrival, when the days were cooler, and the people did not sleep so much as usual, a great feast was held a little way out of the town, and to this feast everyone flocked from thirty miles and more.

Who acts: few months, people, man · What happens: be, not sleep, hold, flock, arrive · To what, where: much, great feast

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few months, people, man), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 months	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 months	amod
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cooler	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 arrival	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 arrival	nmod:poss
6	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 months	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cooler	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 cooler	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 days	det
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cooler	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cooler	cop
12	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sleep	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 sleep	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sleep	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 sleep	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 sleep	advmod
19	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 cooler	parataxis
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 much	advmod
21	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 sleep	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 usual	case
23	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 much	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 held	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 feast	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 feast	amod
27	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 held	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 held	aux:pass
29	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 sleep	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 way	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 way	amod
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 held	obj
33	out	out	ADP	_	36 town	case
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 town	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 town	det
36	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 flocked	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 flocked	cc
39	to	to	ADP	_	42 everyone	case
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 everyone	det
41	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 everyone	compound
42	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	43 flocked	obl
43	flocked	flock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 cooler	conj
44	from	from	ADP	_	46 miles	case
45	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 miles	nummod
46	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 flocked	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 more	cc
48	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	46 miles	conj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 cooler	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a few months after man's arrival		cool property	tree rules
2	not sleep	past · do-support	the people	much	as usual	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme
3	hold	past · passive		a great feast		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme way=Eventuality
4	flock	past	a few months after man's arrival not said here		to everyone; from thirty miles	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arrive		man			nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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