The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 36

‘It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children,’ he said, at length, ‘but if you are here at the same time to-morrow I will give you another treat.’

Who acts: monkey, I, first, you · What happens: get, go, say, be, give · To what, where: length, treat, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (monkey, I, first, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 getting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 getting	aux
4	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 getting	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 going	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 going	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 going	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 going	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 going	aux
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 getting	conj
12	home	home	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 children	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 children	nmod:poss
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 going	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 getting	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 length	punct
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 give	punct
24	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 here	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 here	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 here	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 here	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 here	cop
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	39 give	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	33 time	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 time	det
32	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 morrow	case
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 to	punct
36	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 time	nmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 give	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 length	parataxis
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 give	iobj
41	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	42 treat	det
42	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 length	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 length	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · progressive	monkey				late property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	must · progressive	I				to my children; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	first	length				tree rules
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you				here property	tree rules
5	give	future	I	another treat	you	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treat=Theme

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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