The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 47
The time has come when we must part,’ and with a heavy heart he told the Prince what had happened at the time of his birth.
Who acts: time, we, Prince · What happens: come, part, tell, happen · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, we, Prince), 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 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 part | advmod |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 part | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 part | aux |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ’ | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 told | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 told | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 told | nsubj |
| 17 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 told | iobj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 told | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 happened | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 birth | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 birth | nmod:poss |
| 28 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 time | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present · perfect | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | part | must | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince | the Prince | with a heavy heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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