The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 65

One day, however, their conversation became so absorbing and time passed so quickly that the Princess forgot to attend to the fire, and it went out.

Who acts: conversation, Princess, fire, rays · What happens: become, absorb, pass, forget, not attend, go out · To what, where: time

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conversation, Princess, fire, rays), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 became	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 conversation	nmod:poss
7	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 became	nsubj
8	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 absorbing	advmod
10	absorbing	absorb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 became	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 time	cc
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 absorbing	conj
13	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 time	acl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 quickly	advmod
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	13 passed	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 forgot	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Princess	det
18	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 forgot	nsubj
19	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 passed	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 attend	mark
21	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 forgot	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fire	det
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attend	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 went	nsubj
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 became	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 went	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	rays's conversation		day	however property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	absorb	gerund	rays's conversation not said here				vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal
3	pass	participle		time not said here		quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	past	the Princess				tree rules
5	not attend	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here			to the fire	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to fire=Theme
6	go out	past	fire				vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	converse		rays = ray				nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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