The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 53
We must now go back to the Fairy of the Desert.
Who acts: We · What happens: go back
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. 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 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 Fairy | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Desert | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Desert | det |
| 11 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fairy | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | must | We | now | to the Fairy of the Desert result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fairy=Result |
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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