The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 139
But will you play a game to-day?’
Who acts: you · What happens: 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 play | cc |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 play | nsubj |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 game | det |
| 6 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 play | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | future | you | a game | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=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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