The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 77

When the day came on which the sentence was to be executed, it was the last day of the six years in which she must not speak or laugh, and now she had freed her dear brothers from the power of the enchantment.

Who acts: day, sentence, mother · What happens: come, execute, be, not speak, laugh, free · To what, where: sentence, last day, mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, sentence, mother), 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 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 day	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 executed	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 executed	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 executed	aux:pass
10	to	to	PART	_	12 executed	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 executed	aux:pass
12	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 day	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 day	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 day	amod
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 years	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 years	det
21	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 years	nummod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 day	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 speak	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 speak	nsubj
26	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 speak	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 speak	advmod
28	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 years	acl:relcl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 laugh	cc
30	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 speak	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 freed	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 freed	cc
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 freed	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 freed	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 freed	aux
36	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 speak	advcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 brothers	nmod:poss
38	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 brothers	amod
39	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 freed	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	42 power	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 power	det
42	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 brothers	nmod
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 enchantment	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 enchantment	det
45	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 power	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 day	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	come	past	the day			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	execute	past · passive		the sentence		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	past	sentence	the last day	year	tree rules
4	not speak speech: other	must	mother		in the six years	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	infinitive	mother not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	free	past · perfect · passive		mother	now	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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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