The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 13
The children played on in the garden, and the youngest had the golden star on his breast, which the tree had worn on the happiest evening of its life; and now that was past--and the tree had passed away--and the story too, all ended and done with.
Who acts: children, youngest, that, tree · What happens: play on, have, wear, be, pass away, do · To what, where: garden, golden star, breast, tree
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, youngest, that, tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 played | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youngest | det |
| 11 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 star | det |
| 14 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 star | amod |
| 15 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 breast | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 breast | nmod:poss |
| 18 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 worn | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 worn | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worn | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 worn | aux |
| 24 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 breast | acl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 evening | det |
| 27 | happiest | happy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 evening | amod |
| 28 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 worn | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 life | nmod:poss |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 evening | nmod |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 past | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 past | cc |
| 34 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 past | advmod |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 past | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 past | cop |
| 37 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 played | parataxis |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 43 passed | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 passed | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 passed | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 passed | aux |
| 43 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 past | advcl |
| 44 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 passed | advmod |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 48 story | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 story | cc |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 story | det |
| 48 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | parataxis |
| 49 | too | too | ADV | _ | 48 story | advmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 ended | punct |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 ended | det |
| 52 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 story | parataxis |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 done | cc |
| 54 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 ended | conj |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 54 done | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play on | past | the children | the garden | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the youngest | the golden star | Dumpty's breast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Patient | |||
| 3 | wear | past · perfect · passive | the tree | evening | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | now | past property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | pass away | past · perfect | the tree | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | do | participle | the children not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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