The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 19

It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever hour you please.’

Who acts: I · What happens: do, join · To what, where: cross, you, fir wood

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
3	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 join	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 join	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 join	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 join	aux
9	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 done	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 join	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wood	det
13	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wood	compound
14	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 join	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 whatever	case
16	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 wood	appos
17	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whatever	obl:unmarked
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 whatever	nsubj
19	please	please	INTJ	_	4 done	discourse
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present · passive		cross				nearly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	join	future	I	you		the fir wood			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient

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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