The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 103
After that we must think of something to do to amuse ourselves.'
Who acts: we · What happens: think, do, amuse · To what, where: ourselves
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 think | obl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 something | case |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 think | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 something | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 amuse | mark |
| 11 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | advcl |
| 12 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 amuse | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | must | we | after that | of something | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | we not said here | ourselves | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer |
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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