The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 213
We cannot go back to our country; let us land on this desert island and there end our miserable lives.”
Who acts: We, us · What happens: not go back, let, land, end · To what, where: us, desert island, miserable lives
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, us), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 country | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 country | nmod:poss |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 back | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | parataxis |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | land | land | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 island | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 island | det |
| 15 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 island | compound |
| 16 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 land | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 end | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 end | expl |
| 19 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nmod:poss |
| 21 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lives | amod |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 end | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go back | can | We | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | land | infinitive | us not said here | this desert island | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on island=Destination | ||||
| 4 | end | present | our miserable lives | there | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality life=Eventuality |
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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