The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 2

I must go to-morrow and order your coffin.”

Who acts: I · What happens: go, order · To what, where: morrow, coffin

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 go	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 morrow	case
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 to	punct
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 go	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 order	cc
8	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 coffin	nmod:poss
10	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 order	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I			morrow			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location
2	order	infinitive	I not said here	your coffin					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=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 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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