The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 41
‘You have ridden far; eat first, and drink, for you must be hungry and thirsty, and then I will tell you my news.’
Who acts: You, I · What happens: ride, eat, be, tell · To what, where: drink, news, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ridden | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | aux |
| 4 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 ridden | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 eat | punct |
| 7 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 ridden | parataxis |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 eat | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drink | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 drink | cc |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hungry | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 hungry | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hungry | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hungry | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hungry | cop |
| 17 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eat | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thirsty | cc |
| 19 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hungry | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tell | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tell | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 tell | advmod |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 tell | aux |
| 25 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 eat | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 tell | iobj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 news | nmod:poss |
| 28 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 tell | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ridden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | present · perfect | You | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | infinitive | drink | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | must | you | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | future | I | my news | you | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient news=Topic |
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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