The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 42
Now go and wash the clothes and spread them out to dry.’
Who acts: you · What happens: go, wash, spread out, dry · To what, where: clothes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wash | cc |
| 4 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 clothes | det |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 wash | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spread | cc |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wash | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 spread | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 spread | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 dry | mark |
| 12 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 spread | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | 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 | now | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | the clothes | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spread out | infinitive | you not said here | clothes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dry | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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