The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 86
His life passed by, and each hour seemed happier than the last, when one day there rushed over him a terrible longing to see his parents.
Who acts: life, hour, one day · What happens: pass by, seem, rush, see · To what, where: terrible longing, parents
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, hour, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 life | nmod:poss |
| 2 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 passed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seemed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | cc |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 10 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 last | det |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 happier | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 rushed | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 day | nummod |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | nsubj |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 day | advmod |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 seemed | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rushed | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 longing | det |
| 23 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 longing | amod |
| 24 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 rushed | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 parents | nmod:poss |
| 28 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass by | participle | maid's life | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seem | past | each hour | happy property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | one day | a terrible longing | over maid | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent longing=Theme over he=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | one day not said here | maid's parents | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parent=Stimulus |
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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