The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 3, sentence 26

And in the twinkling of an eye it was done.

Who acts: eye · What happens: be · To what, where: twinkling

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 done	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 twinkling	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 twinkling	det
4	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 done	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 eye	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 eye	det
7	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twinkling	nmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 done	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 done	cop
10	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	eye			the twinkling of a eye		done 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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