The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 137
One day passed much like another till the following incident happened.
Who acts: One day, following incident · What happens: pass, follow, happen
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, 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 (One day, following incident), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 another | case |
| 6 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 11 happened | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 incident | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 incident | amod |
| 10 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | One day | like another | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | happen | past | the following incident | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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