The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 122
We are going to have a tempest, and must bring in the net.’
Who acts: We · What happens: go, have, bring · To what, where: tempest, net
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tempest | det |
| 7 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bring | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 bring | aux |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 net | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 net | det |
| 14 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | We | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | We not said here | a tempest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tempest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | must | We not said here | the net | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
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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