The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 2

When he ceased to be a baby, and his mother thought it was time for him to learn to read, she sent him to school.

Who acts: child, mother, baby · What happens: cease, be, think, learn, read, send · To what, where: baby, time, child, school · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, mother, baby), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	3 ceased	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ceased	nsubj
3	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sent	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	7 baby	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 baby	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 baby	det
7	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceased	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nsubj
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ceased	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 time	cop
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	ccomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 learn	mark
19	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 time	acl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 read	mark
21	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 learn	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ceased	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	nsubj
24	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sent	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 school	case
27	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sent	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cease	past	child				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	to-infinitive	child not said here	a baby			tree rules
3	think speech: other	past	child's mother				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	baby	time		for child	tree rules
5	learn	to-infinitive	child's mother not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	read	to-infinitive	child's mother not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	send	past	mother	child	school		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to school=Destination

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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