The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 87

He had almost give up hope, when on the very last day before it was necessary that he should start of Plouhinec, he came upon a little clump of trefoil, half hidden under a rock.

Who acts: sky · What happens: give up, be, start, come, hide · To what, where: hope, little clump, half, rock

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 (sky), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 give	compound:prt
6	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 day	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 last	advmod
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	17 necessary	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 necessary	expl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 necessary	cop
17	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 start	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 start	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 start	aux
21	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 necessary	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Plouhinec	case
23	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 start	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 clump	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 clump	det
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 clump	amod
30	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 trefoil	case
32	trefoil	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clump	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 half	punct
34	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 clump	conj
35	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 half	acl
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 rock	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 rock	det
38	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 hidden	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	sky	hope		day	almost property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source
2	is	past	sky not said here				necessary property	tree rules
3	start	should	sky				of Plouhinec	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	come	past	sky		a little clump of trefoil and half			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon clump=Location
5	hide	participle		half not said here	a rock			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under rock=Location

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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