The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 56
Many hours passed thus, and she was so happy that she did not notice that the ship was sailing away.
Who acts: Many hours, Princess, ship · What happens: pass, be, not notice, sail away
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many hours, Princess, ship), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hours | amod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 happy | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 happy | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 notice | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 notice | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 notice | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 notice | advmod |
| 15 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 sailing | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sailing | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sailing | aux |
| 20 | sailing | sail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 notice | advcl |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 sailing | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | Many hours | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Princess | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not notice | past · do-support | Princess | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | sail away | past · progressive | the ship | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: 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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