The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 29
No, my day is past, and the time has come when I too must bow my head under the yoke of my foe!
Who acts: day, time, I · What happens: be, come, bow · To what, where: head, yoke
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, time, I), 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 past | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 past | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 day | nmod:poss |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 past | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 past | cop |
| 6 | past | past | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 come | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 past | parataxis |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 bow | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bow | nsubj |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 bow | advmod |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 bow | aux |
| 17 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | parataxis |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bow | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 22 yoke | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 yoke | det |
| 22 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bow | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 foe | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 foe | nmod:poss |
| 25 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 yoke | nmod |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 past | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my day | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present · perfect | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bow | must | I | my head | the yoke of my foe | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
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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