The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 63
I will go into the town and find out the value of each pearl.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, find out, value · To what, where: town, value, pearl
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 find | cc |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 find | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 value | det |
| 11 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pearl | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 pearl | det |
| 14 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 value | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | the town | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find out | infinitive | I not said here | the value of each pearl | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent value=Topic | ||||
| 3 | value | each pearl | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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