The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 85

And when three days and three nights had passed they were twelve years in age, twenty-four in strength, and thirty-six in wisdom.

Who acts: boys · What happens: pass, be · To what, where: three days, twelve years, age

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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	_	9 passed	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 passed	advmod
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 days	nummod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 passed	nsubj:pass
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nights	cc
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 nights	nummod
7	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 passed	aux
9	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 years	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 years	cop
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 passed	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 age	case
15	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 years	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 four	punct
17	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 four	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 twenty	punct
19	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 strength	case
21	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 four	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 six	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 six	cc
24	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 six	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 thirty	punct
26	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 passed	parataxis
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 wisdom	case
28	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 six	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		three days and three nights					vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
2	is a	past	boys = boy	twelve years			in age		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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