The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 64
For many days life went on like a beautiful dream to the charcoal-burner and his wife.
Who acts: life · What happens: go on
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 went | compound:prt |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 dream | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dream | amod |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 burner | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 burner | det |
| 13 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burner | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 charcoal | punct |
| 15 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wife | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 burner | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | life | day | like a beautiful dream; to the charcoal burner and life's wife | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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