The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 31
This state of things had gone on for quite a long while, when at last there came a season such as the oldest parrot in the forest could never remember.
Who acts: state, season · What happens: go on, come, not remember
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (state, season), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 state | det |
| 2 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 things | case |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 state | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 gone | compound:prt |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 9 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 while | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | amod |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 last | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 last | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 while | acl:relcl |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 came | expl |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 last | acl:relcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 season | det |
| 20 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 25 parrot | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 such | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 parrot | det |
| 24 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 parrot | amod |
| 25 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remember | obl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 forest | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 forest | det |
| 28 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 parrot | nmod |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 remember | aux |
| 30 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 31 remember | advmod |
| 31 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 season | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past · perfect | this state of things | while | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a season | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not remember | could | a season not said here | such the oldest parrot in the forest | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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