The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 82

Years passed away, and the babies were almost men.

Who acts: Years, babies · What happens: pass away, be · To what, where: men

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Years, babies), 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	Years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	nsubj
2	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 passed	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 men	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 men	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 babies	det
7	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 men	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 men	cop
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 men	advmod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 passed	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	participle	Years					away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the babies	men				almost property	tree rules

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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