The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 137
But as I have to go out in the morning you can meet me on the road.'
Who acts: I, you · What happens: have, go out, meet · To what, where: me, road
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, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 meet | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 meet | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 go | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 morning | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 meet | aux |
| 13 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 meet | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meet | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 meet | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | I not said here | morning | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | meet | can | you | me | the road | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent |
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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