The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 153

This time the Kinglet was not late for his appointment.

Who acts: time · What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Kinglet	det
4	Kinglet	Kinglet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 late	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 late	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 late	advmod
7	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 appointment	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 appointment	nmod:poss
10	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 late	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	this time					for Kinglet's appointment; late 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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