The Blue Fairy Book, Prince Darling, sentence 87
It is time that I should fulfil my promise, and begin your punishment.
Who acts: way, time, my, your · What happens: be, fulfil, begin, promise, punish · To what, where: time, promise, punishment
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Darling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, time, my, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | cop |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 fulfil | nsubj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 fulfil | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fulfil | aux |
| 7 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fulfil | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 begin | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begin | cc |
| 12 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fulfil | advcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 14 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begin | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | way | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fulfil | should | time | my promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | infinitive | time not said here | your punishment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent punishment=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | promise | my | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | punish | your | nom punishment «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 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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