The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 114
‘Now then, pray to God, and lie down to sleep; to-morrow all will be ready.’
Who acts: you, all · What happens: pray, lie down, sleep, be · To what, where: God
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, all), 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 | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 pray | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 5 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 God | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pray | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lie | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lie | cc |
| 10 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 pray | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lie | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sleep | mark |
| 13 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 lie | advcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ready | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ready | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 ready | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 ready | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ready | cop |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pray | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | God | then | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | lie down | infinitive | you not said here | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sleep | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | future | all | to morrow; ready property | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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