The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 71
He thanked her a thousand times, and said good-by quite sadly when the time came for him to set out.
Who acts: Bow, time · What happens: thank, say, come, set out · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (Bow, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thousand | det |
| 5 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thanked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | xcomp |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 good | punct |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 quite | case |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 14 sadly | advmod |
| 14 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | obl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 set | mark |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 set | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Bow | place | time | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | good property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the time | for Bow; sadly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set out | to-infinitive | the time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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