The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 125
Thus the summer and autumn passed, but then came winter--the long, cold winter.
Who acts: summer, winter · What happens: pass, come
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (summer, winter), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 summer | det |
| 3 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 autumn | cc |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summer | conj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | advmod |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 winter | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 winter | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 winter | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 16 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 winter | amod |
| 17 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 winter | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the summer and autumn | thus property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | winter and the long cold winter | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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