The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 12
Hardly a day passed without his buying several dogs--big and little, greyhounds, mastiffs, spaniels, and lapdogs.
What happens: pass, buy · To what, where: day
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hardly | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 dogs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 dogs | amod |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dogs | amod |
| 9 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 big | punct |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 greyhounds | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 little | cc |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 big | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greyhounds | punct |
| 15 | greyhounds | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dogs | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mastiffs | punct |
| 17 | mastiffs | mastiff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 greyhounds | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spaniels | punct |
| 19 | spaniels | spaniel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 greyhounds | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lapdogs | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lapdogs | cc |
| 22 | lapdogs | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 greyhounds | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hardly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | a day not said here | without two's buying several dogs big greyhounds and mastiffs and spaniels and lapdogs | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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