The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 78

They all went about hanging their heads; but when only one day remained of the three Esben came along.

Who acts: heads, one day · What happens: go, hang, remain, come along · To what, where: heads, one day

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, one day), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	5 hanging	mark
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 went	advcl
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heads	nmod:poss
7	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hanging	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 came	advmod
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
14	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 day	acl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 Esben	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Esben	det
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 Esben	nummod
18	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 remained	obl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
20	along	along	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	heads = head			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hang	gerund	heads = head not said here	heads's heads		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	remain	participle		one day not said here	of the three Esben	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come along	past	one day		along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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