The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 5
Night draws near, and it will be time to go to supper.”
Who acts: Night, charm · What happens: draw, be, go · To what, where: time, supper
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Night, charm), 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | nsubj |
| 2 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | near | near | ADV | _ | 2 draws | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 time | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 time | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 time | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 time | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | cop |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 draws | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 time | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 supper | case |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 draws | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | present | Night | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | charm | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Night not said here | supper | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to supper=Initial_Location |
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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