The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 83

Alas! next day was dark and gloomy, and it was only late in the afternoon that the sun broke through the clouds for a few minutes.

Who acts: next day, couple, sun · What happens: be, break · To what, where: clouds

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 (next day, couple, sun), 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	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	6 dark	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Alas	punct
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dark	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gloomy	cc
8	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dark	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 late	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 late	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 late	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 late	cop
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 late	advmod
14	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dark	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 afternoon	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 afternoon	det
17	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 late	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 broke	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	nsubj
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 late	advcl
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 clouds	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 clouds	det
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 broke	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 minutes	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 minutes	det
27	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 minutes	amod
28	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 clouds	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	next day			dark property	tree rules
2	be		next day not said here				tree rules
3	is	past	couple		afternoon	late property	tree rules
4	break	past	the sun	the clouds for a few minutes			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through cloud=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 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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