The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 26
‘It is time that I took a wife,’ said he, and after long looking he found one.
Who acts: briar, time, man · What happens: be, take, say, look, find · To what, where: time, wife, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (briar, time, man), 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 | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 took | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wife | det |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 found | cc |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 18 looking | mark |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 looking | amod |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 found | advcl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 found | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | briar | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | time | a wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | past | man | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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 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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