The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 25

So the time slipped by till Ian was almost a man, as they reckoned men in those days, and then his mother the queen died.

Who acts: time, tales, mother · What happens: slip, be, reckon, die · To what, where: time, man, men

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, tales, mother), 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 man	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nsubj
4	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 time	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 Ian	case
6	till	till	ADP	_	7 Ian	case
7	Ian	Ian	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slipped	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 man	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 reckoned	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 reckoned	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 reckoned	nsubj
15	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	acl:relcl
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reckoned	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 days	case
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 days	det
19	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 reckoned	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 died	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 died	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 died	advmod
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 queen	det
26	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 reckoned	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	slip	participle		the time not said here		by Ian	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is a	past	the time	a man		almost property	tree rules
3	reckon	past	tales = tale	men	day		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent man=Attribute
4	die	past	Ian's mother		then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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