The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 68
The night was passed by Mogarzea and his son in songs and feasting, for both were too happy to sleep, and when day dawned they set out together to free the elves from the tree.
Who acts: Mogarzea, both, songs · What happens: pass, be, sleep, dawn, set out · To what, where: night
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mogarzea, both, songs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | aux:pass |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Mogarzea | case |
| 6 | Mogarzea | Mogarzea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mogarzea | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 songs | case |
| 11 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 son | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feasting | cc |
| 13 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 songs | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 happy | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 happy | mark |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 happy | cop |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 happy | advmod |
| 19 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sleep | mark |
| 21 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 happy | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 dawned | advmod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dawned | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | advcl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 set | nsubj |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 set | compound:prt |
| 30 | together | together | ADV | _ | 28 set | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 free | mark |
| 32 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 set | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 elves | det |
| 34 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 free | nsubj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 elves | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | Mogarzea and Mogarzea's son in songs and feasting | the night | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | both | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | both not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dawn | past | songs = song not said here | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | songs = song | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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