The Violet Fairy Book, The Lute Player, sentence 52
‘When the proper time comes I shall be at your palace,’ was the reply, and so they parted.
Who acts: proper time, I, palaces · What happens: come, be, part · To what, where: palace, reply
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lute Player. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proper time, I, palaces), 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 | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 comes | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 reply | advcl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 palace | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 palace | cop |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 palace | nmod:poss |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 comes | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 palace | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 comes | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reply | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 reply | det |
| 17 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 parted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 parted | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 parted | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 parted | nsubj |
| 22 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 reply | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the proper time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | shall | I | your palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the reply | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | part | past | palaces = palace | the reply not said here | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Patient |
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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