The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 15
I will then get into it, and we can travel swiftly during the night and arrive before dawn at the palace of the prince.
Who acts: I, we · What happens: get, travel, arrive · To what, where: light, palace
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 travel | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 travel | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 travel | aux |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 12 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 11 travel | advmod |
| 13 | during | during | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travel | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrive | cc |
| 17 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 get | conj |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 dawn | case |
| 19 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrive | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrive | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 palace | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | I | light | then | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into it=Destination | |||
| 2 | travel | can | we | night | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | arrive | infinitive | I not said here | the palace of the prince | dawn | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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