The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 21
In this way the months slipped by, and Christmas came round again.
Who acts: Christmas · What happens: slip by, come round · To what, where: months, way
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christmas), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 months | det |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 way | conj |
| 6 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 months | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 way | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Christmas | cc |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip by | participle | the months not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | come round | past | Christmas | this way and the months | again | round property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=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 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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