The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 115
“Make your preparations at once,” added he, “and be ready to start in the morning.
Who acts: your · What happens: make, add, be, start, prepare · To what, where: preparations, Nur · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your), 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 | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 2 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 added | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 preparations | nmod:poss |
| 4 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Make | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Make | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Make | punct |
| 9 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 added | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 added | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 start | mark |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 morning | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 start | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | infinitive | your preparations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | Nur | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | ready property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | start in a quote | to-infinitive | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | prepare in a quote | your | nom preparation «act transitive»: poss=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 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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