The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 45
I will just go and quench my thirst from that spring at the edge of the wood, and then I shall be ready for breakfast.'
Who acts: I, my · What happens: go, quench, be, thirst · To what, where: thirst, edge
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, my), 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 | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 quench | cc |
| 6 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 8 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quench | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 spring | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 spring | det |
| 11 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quench | obl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 edge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 edge | det |
| 14 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quench | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wood | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wood | det |
| 17 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 edge | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ready | cc |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ready | advmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 breakfast | case |
| 26 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ready | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | quench | infinitive | I not said here | my thirst | the edge of the wood | spring | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | is | shall | I | then | for breakfast; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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