The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 106

“If you can’t go to your dinner your dinner shall come to you,” and nodding a farewell to the lion she went back to the donkey.

Who acts: you, dinner · What happens: not go, come, nod, go back · To what, where: you, dinner, farewell, lion

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dinner), 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	_	6 go	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 go	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 dinner	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 dinner	nmod:poss
9	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dinner	nmod:poss
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 nodding	cc
19	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 go	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 farewell	det
21	farewell	farewell	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nodding	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 lion	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lion	det
24	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 nodding	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lion	acl:relcl
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 donkey	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 donkey	det
30	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 went	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go in a quote	can	you					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come in a quote	shall	your dinner		you	your dinner		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location to you=Destination
3	nod	gerund	you not said here	a farewell	the lion			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme to lion=Recipient
4	go back	past	dinner	the lion not said here			to the donkey	tree rules

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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