The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 96
'Oh! there is a barn full of corn; let us go and eat some.'
Who acts: us · What happens: be, let, go, eat · To what, where: barn, us, some
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 is | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 barn | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 barn | det |
| 7 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 barn | amod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 corn | case |
| 10 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 barn | parataxis |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eat | cc |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a barn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | us not said here | some | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=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 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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