The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 101
As soon as they had done so the storm ceased and the waves fell.
Who acts: princes, storm, waves · What happens: do, cease, fall
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, storm, waves), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 done | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 done | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 done | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | aux |
| 6 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 ceased | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 storm | det |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ceased | nsubj |
| 10 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 done | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fell | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 waves | det |
| 13 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ceased | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | princes = prince | soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cease | past | the storm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | the waves | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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