The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 27
At the end of that time the honey was very nearly finished, and there was only a little left, quite at the bottom, and that was very deep down, so deep that it seemed as if it must be right in the middle of the earth.
Who acts: that, it, honey · What happens: finish, be, seem · To what, where: honey, little left, end, middle
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, it, honey), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 honey | det |
| 8 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finished | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 finished | aux:pass |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 nearly | advmod |
| 11 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 finished | advmod |
| 12 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 left | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 left | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 left | amod |
| 20 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bottom | punct |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 bottom | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 bottom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 down | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 down | cc |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 down | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 down | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 down | advmod |
| 31 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 32 down | advmod |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 left | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 deep | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 deep | advmod |
| 35 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 left | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 seemed | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 seemed | nsubj |
| 38 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 deep | ccomp |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 right | mark |
| 40 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 right | mark |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 right | nsubj |
| 42 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 right | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 right | cop |
| 44 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 seemed | ccomp |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 middle | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 middle | det |
| 47 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 right | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 earth | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 earth | det |
| 50 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 middle | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · passive | the honey | nearly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a little left and the bottom | at the end of that time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | deep, down property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 5 | seem | past | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | must | honey | the middle of the earth | right property | tree rules |
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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