The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 73
You had better go there and look for it; I have no more time to waste.'
Who acts: You, I · What happens: have, go, look, waste
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 time | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 waste | mark |
| 17 | waste | waste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 time | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | You not said here | there | well property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | You not said here | for chest | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | waste | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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