The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 152

This time it was Zizi’s turn to be silent.

Who acts: time · What happens: be · To what, where: turn

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
5	Zizi	Zizi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turn	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Zizi	case
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 silent	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 silent	cop
10	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turn	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this time	Zizi's turn					tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						silent property	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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