The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 21
It is but a short while since she whom you seek was here.
Who acts: story, you · What happens: be, seek · To what, where: short while
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (story, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 while | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 while | cop |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 while | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 while | amod |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 9 whom | case |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whom | nsubj |
| 9 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 here | obl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 seek | nsubj |
| 11 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 whom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 here | cop |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 while | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 while | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | story | a short while | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | since a short while | here property | tree rules |
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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