The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 76
As the day wore on, his strength began to fail, and when darkness fell he could hardly keep his eyes open.
Who acts: day, strength, darkness · What happens: wear on, begin, fail, fall, keep · To what, where: eyes
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, strength, darkness), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 wore | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | advcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 wore | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wore | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 strength | nmod:poss |
| 8 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fail | mark |
| 11 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fell | advmod |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | aux |
| 19 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 20 keep | advmod |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fell | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 keep | obj |
| 23 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 keep | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear on | past | the day | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | Petru's strength | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fail | to-infinitive | Petru's strength not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | darkness | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | keep | could | darkness | Petru's eyes | hardly, open property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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