The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 17

He split and clove away, and thought that he was getting on fast; but the day wore on until it was long past midday, and he was still very far from having finished.

Who acts: prince, day, clove · What happens: split away, think, get on, wear on, be, finish · To what, where: clove, long past midday, prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, day, clove), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 split	nsubj
2	split	split	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 clove	cc
4	clove	clove	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 split	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 split	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thought	cc
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 split	parataxis
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 getting	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 getting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 getting	aux
12	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 thought	ccomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	12 getting	compound:prt
14	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 getting	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 wore	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 wore	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wore	nsubj
19	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 split	parataxis
20	on	on	ADP	_	19 wore	compound:prt
21	until	until	SCONJ	_	26 midday	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 midday	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 midday	cop
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 midday	amod
25	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 midday	amod
26	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wore	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 finished	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 finished	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 finished	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 finished	aux:pass
31	still	still	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 finished	advmod
34	from	from	SCONJ	_	35 having	mark
35	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 finished	aux
36	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 split	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 split	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	split away	past	prince	clove	away property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clove=Patient
2	think speech: other	past				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	get on	past · progressive	prince		fast property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	wear on	past	the day			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	clove	long past midday		tree rules
6	finish	past · perfect · passive		prince	far property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

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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