The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 101
‘So to-night, after dark, I will send him to you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: send · To what, where: son, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 send | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 to | punct |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 send | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 dark | case |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 night | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 send | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 send | aux |
| 12 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 send | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 send | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | son | you | night | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to you=Destination |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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