The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 27
When the time comes to have them christened you will invite me to be godmother to the princess, and this is how you must send the invitation.
Who acts: time, son, you, this · What happens: come, have, christen, invite, be · To what, where: son, me, godmother
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, son, you, this), 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 | 11 invite | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 comes | xcomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 have | obj |
| 8 | christened | christen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 have | xcomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 invite | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 invite | aux |
| 11 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 invite | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 godmother | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 godmother | cop |
| 15 | godmother | godmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 invite | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 godmother | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 send | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 send | cc |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 send | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 send | cop |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 send | advmod |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 send | nsubj |
| 25 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 send | aux |
| 26 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 invite | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 invitation | det |
| 28 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 send | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 invite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | the time not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | christen | participle | son not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | invite | future | you | me | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | godmother | to the princess | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | must · present | this | send 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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