The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 151

In an hour, as the clock strikes twelve, you must be on the bridge at the place where you met me.

Who acts: you · What happens: strike, be, meet · To what, where: twelve, bridge, me

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hour	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strikes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 clock	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clock	det
7	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strikes	obl
8	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 strikes	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bridge	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 bridge	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 bridge	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 bridge	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bridge	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bridge	det
16	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strikes	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 place	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 place	det
19	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bridge	nmod
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 met	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 met	nsubj
22	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 place	acl:relcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 met	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 strikes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	present		twelve		hour	as the clock	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twelve=Patient
2	is	must	you		the bridge		at the place	tree rules
3	meet	past	you	me				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent

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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