The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 86

‘Be quiet, will you,’ said the old woman; ‘when the time comes I shall be at hand.’

Who acts: old woman, time, I · What happens: be, say, come · To what, where: hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, time, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 will	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 quiet	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
15	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 comes	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 time	det
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	nsubj
18	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 hand	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hand	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 hand	cop
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 hand	case
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 comes	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 comes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	future · infinitive			quiet property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the old woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present	the time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	shall	I	hand		tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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