The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 48
‘But another time Little Lasse must ask leave to go and look for boats in the pea bed.’
What happens: ask, leave, go, look · To what, where: pea bed
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 ask | cc |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | appos |
| 6 | Lasse | Lasse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Little | flat |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 go | mark |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 look | cc |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 boats | case |
| 15 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 look | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 bed | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bed | det |
| 18 | pea | pea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bed | compound |
| 19 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | must | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | the pea bed | for boats | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for boat=Theme in bed=Location |
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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