The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 18
A day and a night went by, and the fight was still undecided, but at last the Welwa began to pant for breath.
Who acts: day, fight, last · What happens: go by, be, begin, pant
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, fight, last), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 night | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 undecided | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 undecided | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fight | det |
| 11 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 undecided | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 undecided | cop |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 undecided | advmod |
| 14 | undecided | undecided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 went | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 last | case |
| 18 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 began | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Welwa | det |
| 20 | Welwa | Welwa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 last | nsubj |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 pant | mark |
| 23 | pant | pant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 breath | case |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pant | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | a day and a night | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the fight | still | undecided property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | past | last | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pant | to-infinitive | last not said here | for breath | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient |
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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