The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 66

‘Winter is here,’ they said, ‘and it is time to fly to other countries.’

Who acts: Winter, crows, One · What happens: be, say, fly · To what, where: time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Winter, crows, One), 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	_	4 here	punct
2	Winter	Winter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
10	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 time	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fly	mark
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 countries	case
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fly	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Winter		here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	crows = crow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	One	time		tree rules
4	fly	to-infinitive	crows = crow not said here		to other countries result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to country=Result

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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