The Blue Fairy Book, Toads and Diamonds, sentence 19
This was the first time she had ever called her child.
Who acts: This, first time · What happens: be, call · To what, where: first time, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Toads and Diamonds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, first 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 called | advmod |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 time | acl:relcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 child | nmod:poss |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | past · perfect · passive | the first time not said here | mother | ever | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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