The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 75
But nothing came of it on the first nor on the second day.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: come · To what, where: first
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 (nothing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 first | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 first | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 day | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 first | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nothing | the first nor the second day | of mixing | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location |
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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