The Violet Fairy Book, The Headless Dwarfs, sentence 54

‘But, of course,’ added the minister carelessly, ‘it may happen now and then, especially in winter, when the days are short, that you will have to work a little longer, to get something finished.’

Who acts: it, days, you · What happens: add, happen, be, have, work, get · To what, where: minister, something

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Headless Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, days, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 added	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
4	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	8 added	advmod
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 of	fixed
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 of	punct
8	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 minister	det
10	minister	minister	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 added	obj
11	carelessly	carelessly	ADV	_	8 added	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 happen	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 happen	nsubj
15	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 happen	aux
16	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 added	conj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 happen	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 then	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 now	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 winter	punct
21	especially	especially	ADV	_	23 winter	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 winter	case
23	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happen	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 short	punct
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 short	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 days	det
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 short	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 short	cop
29	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 winter	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 short	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 work	mark
36	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	xcomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 little	det
38	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	39 longer	advmod
39	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	36 work	advmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 get	punct
41	to	to	PART	_	42 get	mark
42	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 work	conj
43	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 get	obj
44	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 something	acl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past		the minister		carelessly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minister=Patient
2	happen	may	it		now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the days			short property	tree rules
4	have	future	you				tree rules
5	work	to-infinitive	you not said here			long property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	something			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
7	finish	participle					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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