The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 11

At last, after the lapse of five long years, I noticed some blossoms on the branches, and a few days later the most exquisite fruit my eyes had ever seen.

Who acts: I, five long years · What happens: notice, see, lapse · To what, where: blossoms, last lapse, exquisite fruit

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, five long years), 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	At	at	ADP	_	6 lapse	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lapse	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lapse	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 lapse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lapse	det
6	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noticed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 years	case
8	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 years	nummod
9	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 years	amod
10	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lapse	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lapse	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 noticed	nsubj
13	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 blossoms	det
15	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 noticed	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 branches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 noticed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 seen	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 seen	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 days	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 days	amod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 later	obl:unmarked
24	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 seen	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fruit	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 exquisite	advmod
27	exquisite	exquisite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fruit	amod
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 seen	nsubj:pass
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eyes	nmod:poss
30	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 fruit	conj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 seen	aux
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	33 seen	advmod
33	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 noticed	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	I	some blossoms	the last lapse of five long years		on the branches	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer blossom=Stimulus
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the exquisite fruit and my eyes		ever	late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	lapse		five long years					nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=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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