The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 144
So five years passed, and then a great sorrow came to the nation.
Who acts: great sorrow · What happens: pass, come · To what, where: nation
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great sorrow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 years | nummod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 came | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sorrow | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sorrow | amod |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 nation | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nation | det |
| 14 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | year | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a great sorrow | the nation | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to nation=Initial_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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