The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 54

It was now a year since the prince had returned home, for his father felt that it was time that his son should learn how to rule the kingdom which would one day be his.

Who acts: way, father, son · What happens: be, return, feel, learn, rule · To what, where: year, time, kingdom, father

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, father, son), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 year	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 year	cop
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 year	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl:unmarked
6	since	since	ADP	_	8 prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prince	det
8	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 year	nmod
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 returned	aux
10	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	home	home	ADV	_	10 returned	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 felt	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 felt	mark
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	nsubj
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 returned	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 time	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 time	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 time	cop
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 felt	advcl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 learn	obj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 son	nmod:poss
23	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 learn	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 learn	aux
25	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 time	acl:relcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 rule	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rule	mark
28	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 learn	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kingdom	det
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rule	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 be	obj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 be	aux
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 day	nummod
34	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 be	obl:unmarked
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 his	cop
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kingdom	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	way	a year	since the prince; now		tree rules
2	return	past · perfect				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	father's father				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	past	way	time			tree rules
5	learn	should	father's son	time			tree rules
6	rule	to-infinitive	father's son not said here	the kingdom			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme
7	is a	infinitive		father			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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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