The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 55
The spring passed, and it was the eve of St. John, or Midsummer Day.
Who acts: spring, hail · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: eve
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 (spring, hail), 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 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eve | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 eve | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 eve | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 eve | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eve | det |
| 9 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 John | case |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | nmod:desc |
| 12 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 eve | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Day | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 Day | cc |
| 15 | Midsummer | Midsummer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Day | compound |
| 16 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 John | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the spring | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | hail | the eve | of John St. or Midsummer Day | 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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