The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 88
The third time it was just beginning to grow light, and then she said:
Who acts: Gold, bride · What happens: begin, grow, say · To what, where: third time, light · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gold, bride), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beginning | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beginning | aux |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 beginning | advmod |
| 7 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 grow | mark |
| 9 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 beginning | xcomp |
| 10 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 said | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | Gold | the third time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | Gold not said here | light | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | bride | then; time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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