The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 58

I have much on my conscience; it is high time for me to become white paper!’

Who acts: I, conscience · What happens: have, be, become · To what, where: conscience, high time, white paper

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, conscience), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	6 conscience	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 conscience	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 conscience	nmod:poss
6	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 time	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 time	cop
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 time	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 become	mark
15	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	acl
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 paper	amod
17	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 time	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	I	my conscience		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conscience=Patient
2	is a	present	conscience	high time	for me	tree rules
3	become	to-infinitive	I not said here	white paper		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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