The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 42

'We have been very glad to see you, grandson, but now it is time that you went home.'

Who acts: We, grandson, time · What happens: be, see, go · To what, where: you, time

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, grandson, time), 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 glad	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 glad	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 glad	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 see	mark
8	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 see	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grandson	punct
11	grandson	grandson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 see	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 time	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 time	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 time	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 time	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 time	cop
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glad	advcl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 went	nsubj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 time	acl:relcl
21	home	home	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct
23	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present · perfect	We			glad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	We not said here	you		grandson obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	is a	present	grandson	time	now		tree rules
4	go	past	time			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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