The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 132

But the corn had been gone a long time; only the dry, bare stubble was left standing in the frozen ground.

Who acts: dry bare stubble · What happens: go, leave, stand, freeze · To what, where: corn, dry bare stubble, frozen ground

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 (dry bare stubble), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 gone	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corn	det
3	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 gone	aux:pass
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	obl:unmarked
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	16 stubble	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 stubble	det
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stubble	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dry	punct
15	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stubble	amod
16	stubble	stubble	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux:pass
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gone	conj
19	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 left	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
22	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 ground	amod
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	past · perfect · passive		the corn		time	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	leave	past · passive		the dry bare stubble			tree rules
3	stand	gerund	the dry bare stubble not said here		the frozen ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location
4	freeze	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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