The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 6

But when two more winters had passed the fir-tree was so tall that the hare had to run round it.

Who acts: two more winters, fir tree, hare · What happens: pass, be, have, run

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 (two more winters, fir tree, hare), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 passed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 passed	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 winters	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 winters	amod
5	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	aux
7	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
9	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 fir	punct
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tall	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 tall	advmod
14	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passed	parataxis
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hare	det
17	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tall	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 run	mark
20	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 had	xcomp
21	round	round	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 run	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect	two more winters		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the fir tree	tall property	tree rules
3	have	past	the hare		tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	the hare not said here	round hare	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory

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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