The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 127
This is the third time you have been—and at such an hour, too!”
Who acts: This · What happens: be · To what, where: third time
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 been | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 been | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hour | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hour | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 hour | case |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 hour | det:predet |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 hour | advmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 hour | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hour | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the third time | tree rules |
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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