The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 102
The hours passed as if they were minutes, till the princess said that she could be no longer absent from her father.
Who acts: hours, presents, princess · What happens: pass, be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hours, presents, princess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hours | det |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 minutes | case |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 minutes | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 minutes | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 minutes | cop |
| 8 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 absent | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 absent | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 absent | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 absent | cop |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 absent | advmod |
| 20 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 father | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 father | nmod:poss |
| 23 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 absent | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the hours | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | presents = present | as minutes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | could | princess | from princess's father; absent, long property | 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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