The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 135
‘Dearest child,’ she began, ‘the time has come when we must part.’
Who acts: Dearest child, time, we · What happens: begin, come, part
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dearest child, time, we), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 2 | Dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 child | amod |
| 3 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 child | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 began | nsubj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 come | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 come | aux |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 began | parataxis |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 part | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 part | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 part | aux |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 come | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Dearest child | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | part | must | we | 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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