The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 78
'It is time that you were married,' she said, when she saw that Manus had grown tall and strong like unto Iarlaid. '
Who acts: peace, that, wife, Manus · What happens: be, say, see, grow · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (peace, that, wife, Manus), 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 | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 married | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 married | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 married | cop |
| 8 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 grown | mark |
| 18 | Manus | Manus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 grown | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 grown | aux |
| 20 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grown | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strong | cc |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grown | conj |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 Iarlaid | case |
| 25 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 26 Iarlaid | case |
| 26 | Iarlaid | Iarlaid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 strong | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | peace | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | that | married property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | past | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | grow | past · perfect | Manus | tall property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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