The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 23
He will make a splendid ram, and to-morrow we will drive him to the fair and sell him.’
Who acts: ram, we · What happens: make, drive, sell · To what, where: splendid ram, ram, morrow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ram, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ram | det |
| 5 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ram | amod |
| 6 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 drive | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 drive | cc |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obl |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 drive | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 drive | aux |
| 14 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 drive | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 fair | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fair | det |
| 18 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drive | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sell | cc |
| 20 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 drive | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sell | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | ram | a splendid ram | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Product | ||||
| 2 | drive | future | we | ram | morrow | to the fair | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to morrow=Destination to fair=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | sell | infinitive | we not said here | ram | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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