The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 15
Some months passed in this way, and then the father suddenly fell ill, and knew that the time had come when he must die.
Who acts: months, father, time · What happens: pass, fall, know, come, die · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (months, father, time), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 months | det |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fell | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fell | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 fell | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 fell | advmod |
| 13 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 14 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 knew | cc |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 come | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 knew | ccomp |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 die | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 die | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 die | aux |
| 26 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 come | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | some months | this way | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the father | then | ill, suddenly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | die | must | father | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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