The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 74
The bit of burned wood regularly came ashore on the appointed day for as good, ay, and better than a hundred years.
What happens: burn, come, appoint · To what, where: bit
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 wood | case |
| 4 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wood | amod |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bit | nmod |
| 6 | regularly | regularly | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 day | det |
| 11 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 day | amod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 good | case |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 good | advmod |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 day | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ay | punct |
| 17 | ay | ay | INTJ | _ | 15 good | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 better | cc |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 came | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 years | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 hundred | det |
| 23 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 years | nummod |
| 24 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 better | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | the bit of burned wood | day | ashore, regularly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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