The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 30
The town is not far off and we can easily get another carriage there, for the wheels of this one are bad and will not hold out much longer.”
Who acts: town, we, wheels · What happens: not be, get, be, not hold out · To what, where: carriage
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (town, we, wheels), 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 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 off | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 off | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 off | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 off | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 get | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 10 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 11 get | advmod |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 off | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 carriage | det |
| 13 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | obj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 get | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bad | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 bad | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wheels | det |
| 18 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bad | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wheels | nmod |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 bad | cop |
| 23 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hold | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 hold | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 hold | advmod |
| 27 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 bad | conj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 hold | compound:prt |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 30 longer | advmod |
| 30 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 hold | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 off | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | the town | far, off property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | can | we | another carriage | there | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carriage=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | is | present | the wheels of this one | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hold out | future | the wheels of this one not said here | long property | vn exist-47.1 «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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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