The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 108

‘I will go and play a game with the Gruagach.’

Who acts: I · What happens: go, play · To what, where: game

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 play	cc
6	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 play	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 Gruagach	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gruagach	det
11	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 game	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	future	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play	infinitive	I not said here	a game				with the Gruagach	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent game=Theme with gruagach=Co-Agent

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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