The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 134

This was the last thing that had ever entered his head, for the brook had been as it was since the days of his grandfather.

Who acts: This, brook · What happens: be, enter, have · To what, where: last thing

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, brook), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 thing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thing	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 entered	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 entered	aux
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 entered	advmod
9	entered	enter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 thing	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brook	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 brook	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brook	det
15	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thing	appos
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 brook	acl
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 days	cop
18	as	as	ADP	_	23 days	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 days	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 days	cop
21	since	since	ADP	_	23 days	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 days	det
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 grandfather	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grandfather	nmod:poss
26	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 days	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the last thing			tree rules
2	enter	past · perfect · passive		the last thing	ever		tree rules
3	have	past	the brook not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	participle	brook		as the days	of jaw's grandfather	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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