The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 87
And, be quick!--for at this very moment the giant has fallen asleep, and you have only a quarter of an hour to do everything.'
Who acts: you, giant · What happens: be, fall, have, do · To what, where: quarter, everything
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giant), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 quick | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 quick | cop |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 moment | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 moment | advmod |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fallen | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fallen | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fallen | aux |
| 15 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 quick | parataxis |
| 16 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fallen | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 have | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fallen | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 quarter | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 quarter | det |
| 23 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hour | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hour | det |
| 26 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 quarter | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | advcl |
| 29 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present · perfect | the giant | moment | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | present | you | a quarter of a hour | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality |
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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