The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 13

Not a day passed but she received seven or eight thousand sonnets, and as many elegies, madrigals, and songs, which were sent her by all the poets in the world.

Who acts: day, admiration, poets · What happens: not pass, receive, send · To what, where: thousand sonnets, many elegies

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (day, admiration, poets), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 passed	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passed	nsubj
4	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 received	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 received	nsubj
7	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 passed	conj
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 thousand	compound
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 eight	cc
10	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seven	conj
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sonnets	nummod
12	sonnets	sonnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 received	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sent	cc
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 many	advmod
16	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 elegies	amod
17	elegies	elegy	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sent	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 madrigals	punct
19	madrigals	madrigal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 elegies	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 songs	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 songs	cc
22	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sent	nsubj:pass
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sent	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sent	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sent	aux:pass
26	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 passed	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sent	obj
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 poets	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 poets	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 poets	det
31	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 sent	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 world	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 world	det
34	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 poets	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not pass	past	a day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	receive	past	admiration	thousand sonnets	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sonnet=Theme
3	send	past · passive	all poets in the world	many elegies and madrigals	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination she=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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