The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 66
And the sun came out and the water disappeared, without his knowing how or when.
Who acts: sun, water · What happens: come out, disappear, know
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 (sun, water), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 disappeared | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 disappeared | nsubj |
| 9 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowing | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 knowing | mark |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 knowing | nsubj |
| 13 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 disappeared | advcl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 knowing | ccomp |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 when | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 how | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the sun | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | disappear | past | the water | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know | gerund | water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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