The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 120

It is surely time for her good days to begin?’

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

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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	4 time	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 time	cop
3	surely	surely	ADV	_	4 time	advmod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 days	nmod:poss
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 days	amod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 time	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 begin	mark
10	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 time	advcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	way	time			day	surely property	tree rules
2	begin	to-infinitive	way not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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