The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 82
‘Go and kill him, and then come and eat your food and sleep, for we must be off betimes in the morning.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, kill, come, eat off · To what, where: son, food
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 (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 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 kill | cc |
| 4 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kill | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 come | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 eat | cc |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | conj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 food | nmod:poss |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sleep | cc |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 food | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 be | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 be | mark |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 be | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 off | cop |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 eat | compound:prt |
| 22 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 25 morning | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 morning | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 morning | det |
| 25 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | 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 | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | you not said here | son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | you not said here | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat off | infinitive | you not said here | your food and sleep | morning | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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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