The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 44
“Wake up, my grandson, it is time to go home,” the witch said.
Who acts: grandson, witch · What happens: wake up, be, go, say · To what, where: grandson, time · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandson, witch), 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 | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 2 | Wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Wake | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 grandson | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wake | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 time | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | cop |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wake | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 time | acl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wake | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up in a quote | infinitive | my grandson | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | grandson | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the witch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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