The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 41
So the day passed in mirth and glee, but when eight o’clock came, Christian was again shut up in the church, all alone.
Who acts: eight o’clock · What happens: pass, come, shut up · To what, where: mirth, Christian, church
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eight o’clock), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mirth | case |
| 6 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 glee | cc |
| 8 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mirth | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shut | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 shut | cc |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 12 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 o’clock | nummod |
| 13 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shut | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 16 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shut | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 shut | aux:pass |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 shut | advmod |
| 19 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 shut | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 church | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 church | det |
| 23 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shut | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 alone | punct |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 alone | advmod |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | participle | mirth and glee | day | alone property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in mirth=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | eight o’clock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shut up | past · passive | Christian | the church | again | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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