The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 28
To-morrow I shall take my son and my chief ministers and insist on getting inside.’
Who acts: I · What happens: take, insist, get · To what, where: son, morrow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | aux |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ministers | cc |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ministers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ministers | amod |
| 12 | ministers | minister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 son | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 insist | cc |
| 14 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 take | conj |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 getting | mark |
| 16 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 insist | advcl |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 16 getting | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | shall | I | my son and my chief ministers | morrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to morrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | insist speech: other | present | I not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | gerund | I not said here | inside property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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