English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 33
But when the time was getting over, she began to think about the skeins and to wonder if he had 'em in mind.
Who acts: time, girl, company · What happens: be, get over, begin, think, wonder, have · To what, where: 'em, mind
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, girl, company), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | advcl |
| 6 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 was | xcomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 getting | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 think | mark |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 skeins | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 skeins | det |
| 15 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 think | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wonder | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 wonder | mark |
| 18 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 think | conj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 had | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wonder | ccomp |
| 22 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 had | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mind | case |
| 24 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the time | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get over | gerund | the time not said here | over property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | girl | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | girl not said here | about the skeins | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about skein=Topic | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | company | 'em = they | mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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