The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 18
One day he had been out for a longer expedition than usual in the fields.
Who acts: One day · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 expedition | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 expedition | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 expedition | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 expedition | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 been | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 expedition | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 expedition | det |
| 9 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 expedition | amod |
| 10 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 usual | case |
| 12 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 expedition | amod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 fields | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fields | det |
| 15 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 usual | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 expedition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | One day | for a longer expedition | 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 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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