The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 30
When the time comes near for his debt becoming due you will be able to notice by his manner that he is ill at ease.
Who acts: time, debt, you, kingdom · What happens: come, become, be, notice · To what, where: ease
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, debt, you, kingdom), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 comes | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | near | near | ADV | _ | 4 comes | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 debt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 debt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | debt | debt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comes | obl |
| 9 | becoming | become | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 debt | acl |
| 10 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 becoming | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 able | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 able | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | cop |
| 14 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 due | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 notice | mark |
| 16 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 able | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 manner | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 manner | nmod:poss |
| 19 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 notice | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 ill | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ill | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 ill | cop |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 notice | advcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 ease | case |
| 25 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ill | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the time | for kingdom's debt; near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | gerund | kingdom's debt not said here | due property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | notice | to-infinitive | you not said here | by kingdom's manner | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | kingdom | ease | ill 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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