The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 17
And now farewell,' continued the rat; 'you have a long way to go, and will do well to start before daybreak.'
Who acts: rat, you · What happens: continue, have, go, do, start · To what, where: long way
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rat, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 continued | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 continued | advmod |
| 3 | farewell | farewell | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 now | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rat | det |
| 8 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 continued | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 way | amod |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 do | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 do | cc |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 do | aux |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 have | conj |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 do | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 start | mark |
| 24 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 do | advcl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 daybreak | case |
| 26 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 start | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the rat | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | you | a long way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | you not said here | a long way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | future | you not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | start | to-infinitive | you not said here | before daybreak | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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