The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 48
“Shall we come in and work havoc, and you too shall eat flesh?”
Who acts: we, you · What happens: come in, work, eat · To what, where: havoc, flesh
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 come | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 work | cc |
| 7 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 8 | havoc | havoc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 work | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 eat | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | aux |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 15 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in in a quote | shall | we | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | work in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | havoc | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent havoc=Material | ||||
| 3 | eat in a quote | shall | you | flesh | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=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: «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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