The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 88
'It is now a year and a day since our sister was taken from us, and we have waited in grief and patience for her to return.
Who acts: length, we · What happens: be, take, wait, return · To what, where: year, sister, grief
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, we), 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 | _ | 6 year | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 year | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 year | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 year | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 day | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 year | conj |
| 10 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 year | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 us | case |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 taken | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 waited | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 waited | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 waited | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 waited | aux |
| 21 | waited | wait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 taken | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 grief | case |
| 23 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 waited | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 patience | cc |
| 25 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grief | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 patience | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 return | mark |
| 29 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 waited | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 year | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | length | a year and a day | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | take | past · passive | our sister | from us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from we=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | wait | present · perfect | we | grief and patience for sister | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grief=Location | ||||
| 4 | return | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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