The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 35

And by night he slept, and by day he took a little of the honey he had gathered and ate it; and so many days passed by.

Who acts: Hassebu · What happens: sleep, take, gather, eat, pass by · To what, where: little, honey, many days

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 (Hassebu), 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	_	5 slept	cc
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 day	case
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 slept	conj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 honey	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 honey	det
16	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 little	nmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gathered	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gathered	aux
19	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 honey	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ate	cc
21	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 gathered	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ate	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 days	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 days	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 many	advmod
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 days	amod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slept	obl
28	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 days	acl
29	by	by	ADP	_	28 passed	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	sleep	past	Hassebu		day; night	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	Hassebu	a little of the honey	day	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
3	gather	past · perfect	Hassebu	the honey not said here		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
4	eat	past	Hassebu not said here	honey		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
5	pass by	participle		many days not said here		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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