The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 31
Get him ready, for the sun is sinking and it is time we set forth.'
Who acts: you, sun, we · What happens: get, sink, be, set · To what, where: life, time
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sun, 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Get | obj |
| 3 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Get | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sinking | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 sinking | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sun | det |
| 7 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinking | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sinking | aux |
| 9 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Get | parataxis |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 time | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 time | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | cop |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sinking | conj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 16 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 15 set | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | imperative | you not said here | life | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sink | present · progressive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | sun | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | present | we | time not said here | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient time=Result |
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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