The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter IV, sentence 45
“Moreover, you are now preparing, contrary to the duty of a faithful subject, to voyage to the Court of Blefuscu.
Who acts: you · What happens: prepare, voyage
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter IV. 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 | _ | 7 preparing | punct |
| 2 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 7 preparing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Moreover | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 preparing | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 preparing | aux |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 preparing | advmod |
| 7 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contrary | punct |
| 9 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 preparing | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 duty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duty | det |
| 12 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 contrary | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 subject | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 subject | det |
| 15 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 subject | amod |
| 16 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 duty | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 voyage | punct |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 voyage | mark |
| 19 | voyage | voyage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 preparing | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Court | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Court | det |
| 22 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 voyage | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Blefuscu | case |
| 24 | Blefuscu | Blefuscu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Court | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 preparing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare in a quote | present · progressive | you | now | moreover property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | voyage in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | to the Court of Blefuscu | tree rules |
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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