The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 18

By this time night had fallen, and Tephany was very tired.

Who acts: Tephany · What happens: fall, be

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tephany), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 night	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 night	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 night	compound
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fallen	obl
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fallen	aux
6	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tired	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tired	cc
9	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 tired	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 tired	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 tired	advmod
12	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fallen	parataxis
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fallen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect					night		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Tephany					tired property	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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