The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 127
‘Since then many months have passed away.
What happens: pass away · To what, where: many months
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 then | case |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 passed | obl |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 months | amod |
| 5 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | present · perfect · passive | many months | away property | 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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