The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 51
It was some time before the bait took, but at length--even emperors are only men!
Who acts: word, bait, emperors · What happens: be, take · To what, where: time, length, men
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (word, bait, emperors), 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 | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bait | det |
| 7 | bait | bait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 length | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 length | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 men | punct |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 15 emperors | advmod |
| 15 | emperors | emperor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 men | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 men | cop |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 men | advmod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 length | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | word | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the bait | length | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent length=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | emperors | men | 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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