The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 99

The turtle bade him farewell, and was gone in a moment.

Who acts: turtle bade · What happens: be

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 (turtle bade), 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	3 bade	det
2	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bade	compound
3	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	nsubj
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	obj
5	farewell	farewell	ADV	_	3 bade	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gone	cc
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gone	cop
9	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 moment	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 moment	det
12	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gone	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the turtle bade				moment	gone property	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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