The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 117
But a time was coming when he learned to change his opinion.
Who acts: time, Cutter · What happens: come, learn, change, opine · To what, where: opinion
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Cutter), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 coming | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 learned | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 learned | nsubj |
| 8 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 change | mark |
| 10 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 learned | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 12 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 change | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · progressive | a time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | learn | past | Cutter | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | Cutter not said here | Cutter's opinion | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | opine | Cutter | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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