The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 108
To-morrow he will go to the market with the money in his hand, so to-night we must get at the chest.
Who acts: son, we · What happens: go, get · To what, where: hand, chest
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 (son, we), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 market | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 market | det |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 get | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 to | punct |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 get | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 get | aux |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | parataxis |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 chest | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 chest | det |
| 26 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | son | son's hand | to morrow; to the market; with the money | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to market=Destination | |||
| 2 | get | must | we | the chest | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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