The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 2

But there had not been much hay in the barn for the last two years, for every St. John’s eve, when the grass was in the height of its vigor, it was all eaten clean up, just as if a whole flock of sheep had gnawed it down to the ground during the night.

Who acts: grass · What happens: have, not be, be, eat, clean up, gnaw down · To what, where: eve, much hay, barn, height, grass, whole flock

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 had	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 had	expl
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hay	advmod
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 hay	cop
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hay	amod
7	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 barn	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barn	det
10	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hay	nmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 years	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 years	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 years	amod
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 years	nummod
15	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eve	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	22 eve	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 John	det
19	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 John	nmod:desc
20	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 eve	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 John	case
22	eve	eve	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 height	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 height	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 grass	det
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 height	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 height	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 height	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 height	det
30	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eve	appos
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 vigor	case
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 vigor	nmod:poss
33	vigor	vigor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 height	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eaten	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 eaten	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 eaten	aux:pass
37	all	all	ADV	_	38 eaten	advmod
38	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
39	clean	clean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 eaten	parataxis
40	up	up	ADP	_	39 clean	compound:prt
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 gnawed	punct
42	just	just	ADV	_	51 gnawed	advmod
43	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 gnawed	mark
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 gnawed	mark
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 flock	det
46	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 flock	amod
47	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gnawed	nsubj:pass
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 sheep	case
49	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 flock	nmod
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 gnawed	aux
51	gnawed	gnaw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	conj
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 gnawed	obj
53	down	down	ADP	_	51 gnawed	compound:prt
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 ground	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ground	det
56	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gnawed	obl
57	during	during	ADP	_	59 night	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 night	det
59	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 gnawed	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		every John St.'s eve	there	year		tree rules
2	not is a	participle		much hay	the barn			tree rules
3	is	past	the grass		the height		of barn's vigor	tree rules
4	eat	past · passive		grass			all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	clean up	infinitive						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	gnaw down a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		a whole flock of sheep		night	to the ground	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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