The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 45
And by-and-by it was spring once more, and time for the fisher-folk to sail from the mainland.
Who acts: food · What happens: be, sail · To what, where: mainland
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spring | cc |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 spring | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spring | cc |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 and | punct |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spring | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 spring | cop |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 spring | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 time | cc |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spring | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 folk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 folk | det |
| 17 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 folk | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 fisher | punct |
| 19 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sail | mark |
| 21 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 mainland | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 mainland | det |
| 24 | mainland | mainland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sail | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | food | by spring and time for the fisher folk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail | to-infinitive | food not said here | the mainland | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from mainland=Trajectory |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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