The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 34
We must now follow Miss Puss to the coast of Africa.
Who acts: We · What happens: follow · To what, where: Miss Puss, coast
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 follow | advmod |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | Miss | Miss | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Puss | compound |
| 6 | Puss | puss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 coast | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coast | det |
| 9 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Africa | case |
| 11 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 coast | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must | We | Miss Puss | the coast of Africa | now | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent puss=Theme to coast=Trajectory |
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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