The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 198
The day after to-morrow is Easter Day, and it is high time to think of our marriage.’
Who acts: day, morrow, our · What happens: be, think, marry · To what, where: Easter Day, high time
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 (day, morrow, our), 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 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Day | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Day | cop |
| 8 | Easter | Easter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Day | compound |
| 9 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 time | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 time | cop |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Day | appos |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 think | mark |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 marriage | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 20 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 think | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the day after morrow | Easter Day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | morrow | high time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | the day after morrow not said here | of our marriage | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | marry | our | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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 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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