The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 85

From the instant it was light, till the last rays had faded out of the sky, he searched every inch of ground where the magic plants might grow; he scarcely gave himself a minute to eat and drink, but at length he found the crowsfoot in a little hollow!

Who acts: air, sky, magic plants · What happens: be, fade, search, grow, give, eat · To what, where: instant, last rays, sky, inch, crowsfoot, length

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, sky, magic plants), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 light	obl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 light	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	cop
6	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 faded	punct
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 faded	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rays	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rays	amod
11	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 faded	nsubj:pass
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 faded	aux
13	faded	fade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 light	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 sky	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 sky	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sky	det
17	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 faded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 searched	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 searched	nsubj
20	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	parataxis
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 inch	det
22	inch	inch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 searched	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 ground	case
24	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 inch	nmod
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 grow	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 plants	det
27	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plants	compound
28	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grow	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 grow	aux
30	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ground	acl:relcl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 gave	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 gave	nsubj
33	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	34 gave	advmod
34	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 searched	conj
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 gave	iobj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 minute	det
37	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 gave	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 gave	advcl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 drink	cc
41	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 eat	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 found	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 found	cc
44	at	at	ADP	_	45 length	case
45	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	obl
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 found	nsubj
47	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 light	parataxis
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 crowsfoot	det
49	crowsfoot	crowsfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 hollow	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 hollow	det
52	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 hollow	amod
53	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 found	obl
54	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 light	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	air			the instant		light property	tree rules
2	fade	past · perfect · passive		the last rays		the sky			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	search	past	sky	every inch of ground					vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent inch=Location
4	grow	might	the magic plants						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give	past	sky		sky		minute	scarcely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	eat	to-infinitive	sky not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	drink	infinitive	sky not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	find	past	sky	the crowsfoot		length		in a little hollow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent crowsfoot=Theme at length=Asset

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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