The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 93
Oh, how cold it was in that dark water on which the sun never shone!
Who acts: blast · What happens: be, not shine · To what, where: dark water, sun
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blast), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 cold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 cold | advmod |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 water | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 water | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 water | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cold | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 shone | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sun | det |
| 14 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shone | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 shone | advmod |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 water | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | blast | that dark water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not shine | participle · passive | the sun | that dark water | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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