The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 67

The hours slid by, and all was still, so still that Manawyddan well-nigh dropped asleep.

Who acts: hours, all · What happens: slide, be, drop · To what, where: Manawyddan

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hours, all), 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 hours	det
2	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slid	nsubj
3	slid	slide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	3 slid	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 still	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 still	cc
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 still	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 still	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	3 slid	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 dropped	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 still	advmod
12	still	still	ADV	_	18 dropped	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 dropped	mark
14	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 dropped	nsubj:pass
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 dropped	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 well	punct
17	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	18 dropped	advmod
18	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slid	conj
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 dropped	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slide	participle	the hours				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	all			still property	tree rules
3	drop	participle · passive		Manawyddan	still	asleep, nigh, well property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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