The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 39

So the winter went on, till at last the spring sun mounted higher in the heavens and began to warm the earth.

Who acts: winter, last · What happens: go on, mount, begin, warm · To what, where: heavens, earth

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (winter, last), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mounted	punct
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 mounted	mark
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 last	case
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mounted	nsubj:outer
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sun	det
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sun	compound
12	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 last	nsubj
13	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
14	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 mounted	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 heavens	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 heavens	det
17	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mounted	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 warm	mark
21	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 earth	det
23	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warm	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	the winter				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mount	past	last		the heavens	high property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in heaven=Destination
3	begin	past	the winter not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	warm	to-infinitive	the winter not said here	the earth			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=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 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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