The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 85
‘Go home to thy mother’; and turning round he strode back angrily to the castle.
Who acts: you, giant · What happens: go, turn round, stride · To what, where: castle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, giant), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 strode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turning | cc |
| 10 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 strode | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 turning | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 strode | nsubj |
| 13 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 angrily | advmod |
| 15 | angrily | angrily | ADV | _ | 13 strode | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 strode | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | to thy mother; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | turn round | gerund | giant not said here | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stride | past | giant | the castle | angrily property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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