The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 26

The time passed quickly away, and when the seven years were nearly ended two of them grew terribly anxious and frightened, but the third made light of it, saying, ‘Don’t be afraid, brothers, I wasn’t born yesterday; I will guess the riddle.’

Who acts: time, seven years, two, I · What happens: pass away, be, grow, make, say, not be · To what, where: third made light, I, riddle, light · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, seven years, two, I), 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 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 grew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grew	cc
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 ended	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 years	det
10	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ended	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 ended	cop
13	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	14 ended	advmod
14	ended	ended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	advcl
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 grew	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 two	nmod
18	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	20 anxious	advmod
20	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grew	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 frightened	cc
22	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 anxious	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 light	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 light	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 light	det
26	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 light	amod
27	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 light	amod
28	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grew	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 light	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saying	punct
32	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 grew	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 afraid	punct
34	‘	'	PUNCT	_	38 afraid	punct
35	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	38 afraid	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 afraid	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 afraid	cop
38	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 saying	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 brothers	punct
40	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 afraid	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 born	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 born	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 born	aux:pass
44	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 born	advmod
45	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 afraid	advcl
46	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 born	obl:unmarked
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 guess	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 guess	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 guess	aux
50	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 passed	parataxis
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 riddle	det
52	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 guess	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 guess	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 guess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	past	the time			away, quickly property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	the seven years			ended, nearly property	tree rules
3	grow	past	two of carriages	the third made light of light		anxious property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	say speech: assert	gerund	two of carriages not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is	infinitive · do-support				brothers obl; afraid property	tree rules
7	not bear	past · passive		I	yesterday		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
8	guess	future	I	the riddle			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent riddle=Theme
9	light			light			nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 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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