The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 64

When this happens, only one of the nuns remains on guard at a time, and if we are lucky enough to hit upon this moment, we may get hold of the vase at once; if not, we shall have to wait the arrival of the hermit, however long it may be; for there is no other means of obtaining the holy water.’

Who acts: this, other, we, hermit · What happens: happen, remain, be, hit, get, have · To what, where: one, guard, hold, arrival, holy water, vase

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, other, we, hermit), 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 happens	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 happens	nsubj
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remains	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 happens	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 nuns	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nuns	det
9	nuns	nun	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	remains	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 means	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 guard	case
12	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remains	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remains	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lucky	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 lucky	cc
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 lucky	mark
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 lucky	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 lucky	cop
21	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remains	conj
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 lucky	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 hit	mark
24	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lucky	xcomp
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 moment	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 moment	det
27	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 lucky	parataxis
32	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 vase	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 vase	det
35	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hold	nmod
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	31 get	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 have	punct
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 not	mark
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 have	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 not	punct
42	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 have	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 have	aux
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 remains	parataxis
45	to	to	PART	_	46 wait	mark
46	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 have	xcomp
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 arrival	det
48	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 wait	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 hermit	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 hermit	det
51	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 arrival	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 long	punct
53	however	however	ADV	_	54 long	advmod
54	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	44 have	advmod
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 be	nsubj
56	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 be	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 long	cop
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 is	punct
59	for	for	ADP	_	61 is	case
60	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	61 is	expl
61	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 means	cop
62	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	63 other	det
63	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 means	nsubj
64	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
65	of	of	SCONJ	_	66 obtaining	mark
66	obtaining	obtain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	64 means	advcl
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	69 water	det
68	holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 water	amod
69	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 obtaining	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	64 means	punct
71	’	'	PUNCT	_	64 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	this	one of the nuns				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remain	present	no other not said here		guard	time		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on guard=Location
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	we				enough, lucky property	tree rules
4	hit	to-infinitive	we not said here			moment		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	may	we	hold of the vase				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hold=Theme at once=Asset
6	have	shall	we					tree rules
7	wait	to-infinitive	we not said here	the arrival of the hermit				tree rules
8	is	infinitive					however, long property	tree rules
9	is	present	no other				mean property	tree rules
10	obtain	gerund	no other not said here	the holy water				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset water=Theme
11	hold			the vase				nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient
12	arrive		the hermit					nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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