The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 48
Here are all my fine fellows coming up and we’ll each pull up a tree by the roots and lay you all flat and your houses and towns and everything else!
Who acts: fine fellows, we · What happens: be, come up, pull up, lay · To what, where: tree, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine fellows, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1450): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 fellows | det:predet |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fellows | amod |
| 6 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fellows | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pull | cc |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pull | aux |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 pull | advmod |
| 13 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Here | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 pull | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pull | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 roots | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 roots | det |
| 19 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 pull | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lay | cc |
| 21 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 pull | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 lay | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 you | det |
| 24 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lay | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 houses | cc |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 houses | nmod:poss |
| 27 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 you | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 towns | cc |
| 29 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 houses | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 everything | cc |
| 31 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 houses | conj |
| 32 | else | else | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 everything | amod |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | my fine fellows | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come up | gerund | my fine fellows not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pull up | future | we | a tree | by the roots | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | |||
| 4 | lay | infinitive | we not said here | you | flat property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Result |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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