The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 57
It was the same to-day as yesterday: their shadows went before them in the morning and followed them in the evening.
Who acts: sight, shadows, sorrows · What happens: be, go, follow, shadow · To what, where: shadows
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sight, shadows, sorrows), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 same | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 same | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 yesterday | case |
| 9 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 day | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shadows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 same | parataxis |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morning | det |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 followed | cc |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 followed | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 evening | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 evening | det |
| 24 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 followed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 same | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sight | day | same property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | past | sorrows's shadows | before sorrows = sorrow; morning | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before they=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | sorrows's shadows not said here | shadows = shadow | evening | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | shadow | sorrows = sorrow | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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 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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