The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 25
We will buy the leather ready dressed, and will make the shoes from it.
Who acts: We · What happens: buy, dress, make · To what, where: leather, shoes
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 leather | det |
| 5 | leather | leather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dressed | amod |
| 7 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 buy | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 buy | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shoes | det |
| 13 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 make | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | We | the leather | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leather=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dress | participle | We not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | future | We not said here | the shoes | leather | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product from it=Material |
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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