The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 2
Day and night he thought of nothing else, and at last his prayers were granted, and he became very wealthy.
Who acts: Day, man · What happens: think, grant, become, pray · To what, where: last prayers
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Day, man), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 night | cc |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 nothing | case |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 thought | obl |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 nothing | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 granted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 granted | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 prayers | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prayers | amod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 granted | obl |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 granted | aux:pass |
| 16 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 thought | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | conj |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 wealthy | advmod |
| 22 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Day and night | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | grant | past · passive | Day and night not said here | man's last prayers | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)» | ||||
| 3 | become | past | man | wealthy property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pray | man | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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