The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 24

Towards Christmas-time quite little trees were cut down, some not as big as the young fir-tree, or just the same age, and now it had no peace or rest for longing to be away.

Who acts: dew, peace · What happens: cut down, have, long, be · To what, where: time little trees, peace

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 (dew, peace), 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	Towards	Towards	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 time	compound
2	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Towards	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Towards	punct
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trees	compound
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 little	advmod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	aux:pass
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 cut	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 big	punct
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 big	nsubj
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 big	advmod
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 big	advmod
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cut	conj
16	as	as	ADP	_	21 tree	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tree	amod
19	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tree	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fir	punct
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 big	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 age	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 age	cc
24	just	just	ADV	_	27 age	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 age	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 age	amod
27	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 big	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 had	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 had	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 had	advmod
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 had	nsubj
32	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cut	parataxis
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 peace	det
34	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 had	obj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 rest	cc
36	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 peace	conj
37	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 longing	mark
38	longing	long	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 peace	acl
39	to	to	PART	_	41 away	mark
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 away	cop
41	away	away	ADV	_	38 longing	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cut down	past · passive		time little trees			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
2	have	past	dew	no peace or rest	now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Patient
3	long	gerund	no peace or rest not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	to-infinitive				away 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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