The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 120
“We can’t travel by day for the heat, and we remain where we are all night.
Who acts: We · What happens: not travel, remain, be · To what, where: night
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | _ | 5 travel | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 travel | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 travel | advmod |
| 5 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 heat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 heat | det |
| 10 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travel | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 remain | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 remain | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 remain | nsubj |
| 14 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 travel | conj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 night | advmod |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 night | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 night | cop |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 night | det |
| 19 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 remain | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not travel in a quote | can | We | day | for the heat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | remain in a quote | present | we | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | we | all night | tree rules |
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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