The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 71
‘Is it time for us to go to meat?’
Who acts: praise, us · What happens: be, go · To what, where: time, meat
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (praise, us), 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 | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 time | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 meat | case |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | praise | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | us | meat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meat=Initial_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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