The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 81
Why, you know we should be turned out of the palace, and sent away to starve.’
Who acts: you · What happens: know, turn out, send away, starve · To what, where: we, palace
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 (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | parataxis |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 turned | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 turned | aux:pass |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sent | cc |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 sent | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 starve | mark |
| 18 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 sent | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | turn out | should · passive | we | the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | send away | participle | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | starve | to-infinitive | 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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