The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 28
The next day she played again with the flowers in the warm sunshine, and so many days passed by.
Who acts: queen · What happens: play, pass by · To what, where: warm sunshine, many days
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 played | nsubj |
| 5 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 played | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 flowers | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flowers | det |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 sunshine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sunshine | det |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sunshine | amod |
| 13 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 played | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 days | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 days | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 days | amod |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 played | obl |
| 19 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 days | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 passed | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | queen | the warm sunshine | again; day | with the flowers | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=Theme | ||
| 2 | pass by | participle | many days not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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