The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 52

The sun had risen and set six times when the shark suddenly said, ‘My friend, we have now performed half our journey, and it is time that I should tell you something.’

Who acts: sun, shark, I, our · What happens: rise, set, say, perform, be, tell · To what, where: friend, time, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, shark, I, our), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 risen	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 risen	aux
4	risen	rise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 set	cc
6	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 risen	conj
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 times	nummod
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 set	obl:unmarked
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 said	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shark	det
11	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 set	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 performed	punct
16	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 performed	nsubj:pass
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 performed	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 performed	aux
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 performed	advmod
22	performed	perform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 said	advcl
23	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	25 journey	det:predet
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 journey	nmod:poss
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 performed	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 time	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 time	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 time	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 time	cop
30	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 risen	obl:unmarked
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 tell	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 tell	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 tell	aux
34	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 time	acl:relcl
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 tell	iobj
36	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	34 tell	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 risen	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 risen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past · perfect	the sun					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	set	participle	the sun not said here			time		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the shark				suddenly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	perform	present · perfect · passive		My friend		now		tree rules
5	is a	present	sun	time				tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	should	I	time	you			tree rules
7	journey		our					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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