The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 185
But that was the last that was ever heard of the Tontlawald.
Who acts: that · What happens: be, hear
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | _ | 5 last | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 last | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 last | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 last | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 heard | advmod |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 last | acl:relcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Tontlawald | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tontlawald | det |
| 12 | Tontlawald | Tontlawald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | ever | of the Tontlawald | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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