The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 35
'We shall find plenty of handkerchiefs where we are going.'
Who acts: We · What happens: find, go · To what, where: plenty
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 handkerchiefs | case |
| 7 | handkerchiefs | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 plenty | nmod |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 going | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 going | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 going | aux |
| 11 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 handkerchiefs | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | We | plenty of handkerchiefs | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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