The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 43
So this year slipped away even more pleasantly than the preceding ones.
Who acts: year · What happens: slip away, precede
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 pleasantly | advmod |
| 8 | pleasantly | pleasantly | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ones | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ones | det |
| 11 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pleasantly | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip away | past | this year | away, pleasantly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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 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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