The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 75
And as the sun is getting low in the sky, it is time for you to begin your homeward journey.
Who acts: sun, your · What happens: get, be, begin, journey · To what, where: time, homeward journey
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, your), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 getting | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 getting | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sun | det |
| 4 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 getting | aux |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 getting | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sky | det |
| 10 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 low | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 getting | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 begin | mark |
| 18 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 20 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 journey | compound |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 begin | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · progressive | the sun | low property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | sun | time | for you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | begin | to-infinitive | the sun not said here | your homeward journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | journey | your | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/6/75/