The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 111
And there was time enough for that, for days and nights went by, and no one came; at last when some one did come, it was only to put some great boxes into the corner.
Who acts: days, one, ray · What happens: be, go by, come · To what, where: last, corner
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, one, ray), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 was | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 enough | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 enough | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 days | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 went | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 nights | cc |
| 12 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 days | conj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 enough | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | parataxis |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 come | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 come | advmod |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 one | det |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 come | aux |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 put | cop |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 put | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 put | mark |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 boxes | det |
| 35 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 boxes | amod |
| 36 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | obj |
| 37 | into | into | ADP | _ | 39 corner | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 corner | det |
| 39 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 put | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | time | for that; enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go by | past | days and nights | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come | past · do-support | some one | last | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | ray | the corner | put property | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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