The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 40

For three days and three nights he never drew rein.

Who acts: Florea · What happens: not draw · To what, where: rein

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Florea), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 days	nummod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 nights	nummod
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 drew	nsubj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 drew	advmod
9	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nights	acl:relcl
10	rein	rein	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drew	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 days	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not draw	past	Florea	rein					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=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 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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