The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 35

Days and months and years passed, and the Prince grew up into a beautiful youth, and at last the King himself forgot all about the incident that had happened so long ago.

Who acts: Days, Prince, King, incident · What happens: pass, grow up, forget, happen · To what, where: beautiful youth, last

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Days, Prince, King, incident), 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	Days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 months	cc
3	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Days	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 years	cc
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Days	conj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grew	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grew	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Prince	det
10	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 grew	nsubj
11	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 grew	compound:prt
13	into	into	ADP	_	16 youth	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 youth	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 youth	amod
16	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grew	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 forgot	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 forgot	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 forgot	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 forgot	nsubj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 forgot	nsubj
24	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 passed	conj
25	all	all	ADV	_	24 forgot	advmod
26	about	about	ADP	_	28 incident	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 incident	det
28	incident	incident	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 forgot	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 incident	acl:relcl
32	so	so	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 ago	advmod
34	ago	ago	ADV	_	31 happened	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	Days and months and years			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow up	past	the Prince		into a beautiful youth result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into youth=Result
3	forget	past	the King	last	about the incident; all property	tree rules
4	happen	past · perfect	the incident		ago property	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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