The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 47
‘Be quick and come into the wood, and we will try to get the bull also.’
Who acts: you, we · What happens: be, come, try, get · To what, where: wood, bull
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | cop |
| 3 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 come | cc |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 quick | conj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wood | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wood | det |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 try | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 try | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 try | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 try | aux |
| 13 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 quick | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 try | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bull | det |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | you not said here | the wood | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | try | future | we | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | the bull | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bull=Stimulus |
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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