The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 111
Walter is six years old, and he must soon begin to go to school.
Who acts: Walter · What happens: be, begin, go · To what, where: school
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Walter), 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 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 old | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 old | cop |
| 3 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 old | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 begin | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 begin | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 begin | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 begin | aux |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 begin | advmod |
| 11 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 old | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 begin | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 school | case |
| 15 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Walter | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | must | Walter | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | school | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location |
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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