The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 67

It was all so pleasant that they might have stayed there for ever had not a voice cried out to them, ‘Children, it is time for you to come home!’

Who acts: song, eyes, voice, you · What happens: be, stay, have, not cry out, come · To what, where: Children, eyes, time

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 (song, eyes, voice, you), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pleasant	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleasant	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 pleasant	advmod
5	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 stayed	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stayed	nsubj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stayed	aux
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 stayed	aux
10	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 pleasant	advcl
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 stayed	advmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 had	case
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 had	advmod
14	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stayed	conj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 cried	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 voice	det
17	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	nsubj
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 had	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 cried	compound:prt
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cried	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Children	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 Children	punct
24	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 stayed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 time	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 time	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 time	cop
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pleasant	conj
29	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 come	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 time	acl
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 pleasant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	song					all, pleasant property	tree rules
2	stay	might · perfect	eyes = eye	Children		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	participle	eyes = eye not said here				ever		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not cry out speech: express	past	a voice		eyes = eye				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5	is a	present	song	time					tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive	you					home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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