The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 68

But when the time came, he said he would not be bound to any trade, and that he meant to be a thief.

Who acts: time, widow · What happens: come, say, not bind, mean, be · To what, where: widow, thief · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, widow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bound	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bound	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bound	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 bound	aux:pass
13	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 trade	case
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 trade	det
16	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bound	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 meant	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 meant	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 meant	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 meant	nsubj
21	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	25 thief	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 thief	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 thief	det
25	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 meant	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	widow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not bind	would · passive		widow	to any trade	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to trade=Co-Patient
4	mean	past	widow			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	widow not said here	a thief		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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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