The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 6

He had now to begin all his work over again, but by this time it only wanted an hour of evening, when the witch was to be expected home, and he easily saw that it was impossible for him to be finished by that time.

Who acts: He, work, his · What happens: have, begin, want, expect, see, be · To what, where: work, witch, him

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, work, his), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 had	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 begin	mark
5	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 work	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 work	nmod:poss
8	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begin	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	10 again	case
10	again	again	ADV	_	5 begin	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wanted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wanted	cc
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanted	obl
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 wanted	advmod
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wanted	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 evening	case
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hour	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 expected	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 expected	advmod
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 witch	det
26	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 expected	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 expected	aux:pass
28	to	to	PART	_	30 expected	mark
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 expected	aux:pass
30	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 wanted	conj
31	home	home	ADV	_	30 expected	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saw	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 saw	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 saw	nsubj
35	easily	easily	ADV	_	36 saw	advmod
36	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 impossible	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 impossible	expl
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 impossible	cop
40	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 saw	xcomp
41	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 finished	mark
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 finished	nsubj:pass
43	to	to	PART	_	45 finished	mark
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 finished	aux:pass
45	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 impossible	advcl
46	by	by	ADP	_	48 time	case
47	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	48 time	det
48	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 finished	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	begin	to-infinitive	He not said here	his work			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	want	past	work		hour; time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	expect	past · passive		the witch		home property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	see	past	he			easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	he not said here			impossible property	tree rules
7	finish	to-infinitive · passive		him = he	time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
8	work		his = he				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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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