The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 11
I shall leave them alone and go and catch something for supper.'
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, go, catch · To what, where: tails, something
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | obj |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 leave | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leave | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 catch | cc |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 leave | conj |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 catch | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 supper | case |
| 12 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 catch | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | shall | I | tails = tail | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | catch | infinitive | I not said here | something | for supper | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Theme for supper=Beneficiary |
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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