The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 2
I will go in search of it at dawn, and you can begin to dig the hole as soon as you like.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, begin, dig, like, search · To what, where: search, hole
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 search | case |
| 5 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 search | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 dawn | case |
| 9 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begin | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 begin | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 begin | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 begin | aux |
| 14 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dig | mark |
| 16 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begin | xcomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hole | det |
| 18 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dig | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 soon | advmod |
| 20 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 dig | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 like | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 like | nsubj |
| 23 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 soon | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | search of search | dawn | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||
| 2 | begin | can | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dig | to-infinitive | you not said here | the hole | soon property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 4 | like | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | search | search | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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