The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 91

The time seemed long, and it would be hard to say how often she took out the knife and looked at its polished blade to make sure that this one at least was still safe.

Who acts: time, sister, one · What happens: seem, be, say, take out, look, polish · To what, where: knife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, sister, one), 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	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hard	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 hard	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hard	expl
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hard	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	cop
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 say	mark
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hard	csubj
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 often	advmod
14	often	often	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 knife	det
19	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 blade	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 blade	nmod:poss
24	polished	polish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 blade	amod
25	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 looked	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 make	mark
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 looked	advcl
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 make	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 safe	mark
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 one	det
31	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 safe	nsubj
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 one	nmod
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 safe	cop
35	still	still	ADV	_	36 safe	advmod
36	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sure	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the time			long property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	is	would	the time not said here			hard property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take out	past	sister	the knife		often property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
5	look	past	sister not said here			at home's polished blade	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at blade=Theme
6	polish	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	make	to-infinitive	sister not said here			sure property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
8	is	past	this one at least		still	safe 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 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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