The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 1, sentence 56
“Do you know that you have only three days left to look for the little dog for your father, and your brothers have found lovely ones?”
Who acts: you · What happens: know, have, leave, look, find · To what, where: three days, brothers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 1. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 three | advmod |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 days | nummod |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 days | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 look | mark |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 left | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dog | amod |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dog | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 24 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | conj |
| 27 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ones | amod |
| 28 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | obj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | you | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | participle | three days not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | for the little dog for your father | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for dog=Theme | |||||
| 5 | find in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your brothers | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme one=Attribute |
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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