The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 55
So they passed the day, talking now of the beauty of the Prince, now of the father of the Princess, and then of the misfortune that had happened.
Who acts: birds, misfortune · What happens: pass, talk, happen
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, misfortune), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 talking | punct |
| 7 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | advcl |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 talking | advmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 beauty | det |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 now | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 beauty | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 father | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 father | advmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 father | det |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 talking | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Princess | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Princess | det |
| 22 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 father | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 misfortune | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 misfortune | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 misfortune | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 misfortune | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 misfortune | det |
| 28 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 happened | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 happened | aux |
| 31 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 misfortune | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | birds = bird | day | of the misfortune | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of misfortune=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | talk | gerund | birds = bird not said here | now | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | the misfortune | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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