The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 73
‘Go to the palace and ask for a quarter of a pound of gold, a quarter of a pound of silver, and a quarter of a pound of copper.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: quarter, palace
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 palace | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 palace | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 quarter | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 quarter | det |
| 10 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pound | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pound | det |
| 13 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quarter | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pound | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 quarter | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 quarter | det |
| 18 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quarter | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 pound | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pound | det |
| 21 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 quarter | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 silver | case |
| 23 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pound | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 quarter | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 quarter | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 quarter | det |
| 27 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pound | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pound | det |
| 30 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quarter | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 copper | case |
| 32 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pound | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | a quarter of a pound of copper | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | for a quarter of a pound of gold and a quarter of a pound of silver | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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