The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 54
And so the days passed, in every kind of amusement, until the year was nearly gone.
Who acts: days, year · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: kind
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: who acts (days, year), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 passed | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kind | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 kind | case |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 amusement | case |
| 11 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 gone | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 year | det |
| 15 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 17 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 18 gone | advmod |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passed | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the days | every kind of amusement | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kind=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the year | gone, nearly 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 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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