The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 40
Well, days and weeks and months and years passed, and nothing happened to disturb the peace of the household.
Who acts: days, nothing · What happens: pass, happen, disturb, pacify · To what, where: peace, household
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 (days, nothing), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 passed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weeks | cc |
| 5 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 months | cc |
| 7 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 years | cc |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 happened | cc |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 disturb | mark |
| 16 | disturb | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 happened | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 peace | det |
| 18 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disturb | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 household | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 household | det |
| 21 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peace | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | days and weeks and months and years | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | happen | past | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | disturb | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | the peace of the household | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus peace=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | pacify | the household | nom peace «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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