The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 59
It was all joy and comfort again till morning, and then the third day’s journey commenced.
Who acts: lane, third day · What happens: be, commence, journey · To what, where: joy, journey
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 (lane, third day), 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 joy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 joy | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 joy | det |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 comfort | cc |
| 6 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | conj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 comfort | advmod |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 morning | case |
| 9 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comfort | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 journey | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 journey | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 journey | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 journey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 day | case |
| 17 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 joy | conj |
| 18 | commenced | commence | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 journey | acl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lane | all joy and comfort till morning and the third day's journey | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | commence | participle | the third day's journey not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | journey | the third day | nom journey «act 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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