The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 57
But, my friend, the hour of dinner is at hand.
Who acts: friend · What happens: be · To what, where: hand
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hand | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dinner | case |
| 9 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hour | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 hand | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my friend | hand | 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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