The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 79

They had so much to say to each other, that the sun was already setting when the godmother had ended all the good advice she wished to give the child, and saw it was time for her to be going.

Who acts: eyes, sun, godmother · What happens: have, say, set, end, wish, give · To what, where: much, each, godmother, good advice, child, time · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eyes, sun, godmother), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 much	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 say	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 setting	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 setting	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sun	det
13	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 setting	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 setting	aux
15	already	already	ADV	_	16 setting	advmod
16	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	advcl
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 ended	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 godmother	det
19	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ended	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ended	aux
21	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 setting	advcl
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 advice	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 advice	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 advice	amod
25	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ended	obl
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 wished	nsubj
27	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 advice	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 give	mark
29	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wished	xcomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 child	det
31	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 give	iobj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saw	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 saw	cc
34	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 time	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 time	cop
37	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 saw	obj
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 time	nmod
40	to	to	PART	_	42 going	mark
41	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 going	aux
42	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 time	advcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	eyes = eye	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive			each		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	set	past · progressive	the sun				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	end	past · perfect · passive		the godmother		all good advice obl	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality
5	wish	past	godmother	all good advice not said here			tree rules
6	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	godmother not said here		the child		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
7	see	past	eyes = eye not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is a	past	sun	time		for godmother	tree rules
9	go	to-infinitive · progressive	sun not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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