The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 13

Time dragged heavily till the time of the full moon, but it passed at last, and as soon as it rose the young wife went to the pond, combed her black hair with a golden comb, and when she had finished, placed the comb on the bank; then she watched the water impatiently.

Who acts: moon, young wife, wife · What happens: drag, pass, rise, go, comb, finish · To what, where: Time, last, pond, black hair, comb, bank

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (moon, young wife, wife), 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	Time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl
2	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Time	acl
3	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	2 dragged	advmod
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dragged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moon	amod
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 time	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 passed	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 passed	nsubj
14	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 passed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rose	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rose	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 rose	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 rose	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rose	nsubj
23	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 wife	det
25	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 wife	amod
26	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	nsubj
27	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 pond	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pond	det
30	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 went	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 combed	punct
32	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rose	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hair	nmod:poss
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hair	amod
35	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 combed	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 comb	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 comb	det
38	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 comb	amod
39	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 combed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 finished	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 finished	cc
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 finished	advmod
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 finished	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 finished	aux
45	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	32 combed	advcl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 placed	punct
47	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 finished	advcl
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 comb	det
49	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 placed	obj
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 bank	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bank	det
52	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 comb	nmod
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 watched	punct
54	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 watched	advmod
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 watched	nsubj
56	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passed	conj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 water	det
58	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 watched	obj
59	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	56 watched	advmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	participle		Time not said here		time	heavily property	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	pass	past	moon		last	time		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
3	rise	past	moon				soon property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	past	the young wife		the pond			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
5	comb	past	moon not said here	wife's black hair			with a golden comb	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
6	finish	past · perfect	wife					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	place	participle	wife not said here	the comb	the bank			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent comb=Theme on bank=Destination
8	watch	past	wife	the water		then	impatiently property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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