The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 79
But the river was a long way off, and the day was very hot, and Antoine was heavy, heavier than a whole sheaf of corn.
Who acts: river, day, Antoine · What happens: be · To what, where: long way
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, day, Antoine), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 river | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 way | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hot | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hot | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hot | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hot | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 hot | advmod |
| 15 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heavy | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heavy | cc |
| 18 | Antoine | Antoine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 heavy | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 heavy | cop |
| 20 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hot | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heavier | punct |
| 22 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 heavy | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 sheaf | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sheaf | det |
| 25 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 sheaf | amod |
| 26 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heavier | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 corn | case |
| 28 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sheaf | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the river | a long way | off property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the day | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Antoine | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | Antoine not said here | than a whole sheaf of corn | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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