The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 14

The old witch was waiting for him at the gate, and whispered as he passed: “This is the last time you will ever enter it.”

Who acts: old witch, youth, This, you · What happens: wait, whisper, pass, be, enter · To what, where: gate, last time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old witch, youth, This, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 witch	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 witch	amod
3	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	aux
5	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 waiting	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 gate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 gate	det
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waiting	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whispered	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 whispered	cc
13	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 waiting	parataxis
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 passed	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 passed	nsubj
16	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 whispered	ccomp
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 passed	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 time	punct
19	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 time	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 time	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 time	det
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 time	amod
23	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 passed	obl:unmarked
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 enter	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 enter	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 enter	advmod
27	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 time	acl:relcl
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 enter	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 waiting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	the old witch		the gate		for youth	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at gate=Location
2	whisper speech: assert	past						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass	past	youth					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a in a quote	present	This	the last time				tree rules
5	enter in a quote	future	you	gate		ever		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination

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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