The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 61
Still he had his memory from sunset to sunrise; but from sunrise to sunset he travelled on under the charm, and never threw his eye behind.
Who acts: sun · What happens: have, travel, not throw · To what, where: memory, sunrise, charm, eye
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 (sun), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 memory | nmod:poss |
| 5 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sunset | case |
| 7 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 sunrise | case |
| 9 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sunset | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 sunrise | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 sunrise | cc |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 sunrise | case |
| 13 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sunset | case |
| 15 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sunrise | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 travelled | nsubj |
| 17 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sunrise | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 charm | case |
| 19 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 charm | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 charm | det |
| 21 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 travelled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 threw | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 threw | cc |
| 24 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 threw | advmod |
| 25 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 travelled | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 eye | nmod:poss |
| 27 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 threw | obj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 25 threw | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sun | sun's memory | still; sunrise; sunset | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Patient | |||
| 2 | travel | past | sun | sunrise to sunset not said here | the charm | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sunrise=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | not throw | past | sun not said here | sun's eye | behind property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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