The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 36
You might build us a two-storey house, and fetch soil to make a garden.
Who acts: You · What happens: build, fetch, make · To what, where: storey house, us, soil, garden
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 build | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | aux |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 build | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 storey | nummod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 two | punct |
| 8 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fetch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fetch | cc |
| 12 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 build | conj |
| 13 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fetch | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fetch | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 garden | det |
| 17 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | might | You | a storey house | us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset we=Beneficiary house=Product | |||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | You not said here | soil | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | You not said here | a garden | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset garden=Product |
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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