The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 180
Then, the midnight hour having passed, they all vanished, and the youth was left alone.
Who acts: midnight hour, difficulties · What happens: pass, vanish, leave · To what, where: youth
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (midnight hour, difficulties), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 passed | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hour | det |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hour | compound |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 vanished | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 vanished | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 vanished | advmod |
| 11 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 vanished | conj |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 left | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund · perfect | the midnight hour | then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | vanish | past | difficulties = difficulty | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | the youth | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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