The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 96
‘Now, O son of the king of Tethertown, the time has come for us to part.
Who acts: time · What happens: come
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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 | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 son | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Tethertown | case |
| 10 | Tethertown | Tethertown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 part | case |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 part | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 part | mark |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | the time | now | of son of the king of Tethertown; for part | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of son=Initial_Location |
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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