The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 35
Shall I go and bring you your dinner?”
Who acts: I · What happens: go, bring · To what, where: dinner, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | shall | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | I not said here | your dinner | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination dinner=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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