The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 86
‘We are both going to Evora to try a law-suit.
Who acts: We · What happens: go, try · To what, where: Evora, law suit
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Evora | case |
| 7 | Evora | Evora | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 going | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 try | mark |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 suit | det |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suit | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 13 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 try | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | Evora | both property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | We not said here | a law suit | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suit=Eventuality |
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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