The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 43
All we can do is to fasten them up and leave them ready.”
Who acts: we, All · What happens: do, be, leave · To what, where: heaps
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fasten | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fasten | cop |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fasten | mark |
| 7 | fasten | fasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fasten | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 fasten | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 leave | cc |
| 11 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fasten | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 leave | obj |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leave | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fasten | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | fasten property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | All not said here | heaps = heap | ready property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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