The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 145
At last the sun went down behind the pine tops, and it was cool and dusky in the great wood.
Who acts: last sun, sun · What happens: go down, be · To what, where: pine tops, great wood
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last sun, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sun | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 tops | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tops | det |
| 9 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tops | compound |
| 10 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cool | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cool | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cool | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cool | cop |
| 15 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 went | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dusky | cc |
| 17 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cool | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wood | amod |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dusky | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | the last sun | the pine tops | down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind top=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | sun | cool property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | sun not said here | the great wood | tree rules |
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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