The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 97

Thirty-nine days passed, and at midnight on the night of the last the old woman was standing on the bridge.

Who acts: nine days, old woman · What happens: pass, stand · To what, where: bridge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine days, old woman), 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	Thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 nine	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Thirty	punct
3	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 passed	nsubj
5	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 midnight	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 midnight	cc
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 midnight	case
9	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 passed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 night	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 night	det
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 midnight	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 last	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 last	det
15	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 night	amod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 woman	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 woman	amod
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 standing	aux
20	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 last	ccomp
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 bridge	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bridge	det
23	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 standing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	nine days				midnight		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past · progressive	the old woman			the bridge			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bridge=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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