The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 20
‘You must be there without fail an hour before midnight,’ answered the wizard, and went on his way.
Who acts: You · What happens: be, answer, go · To what, where: wizard, way
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 answered | advmod |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 fail | case |
| 7 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | obl |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fail | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 midnight | case |
| 11 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fail | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wizard | det |
| 16 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 answered | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | You | without fail a hour before midnight; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the wizard | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wizard=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Bernez's way | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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