The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 11
‘Now, my dear, with your leave I am going up to my room to finish the story I am reading.
Who acts: leave, I · What happens: go up, finish, read · To what, where: room, story
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leave, I), 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 dear | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 dear | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 dear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 leave | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | nsubj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 dear | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 room | nmod:poss |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 finish | mark |
| 18 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finish | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 reading | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 reading | aux |
| 23 | reading | read | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 story | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present · progressive | your leave | my room | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient room=Extent | ||||
| 2 | finish | to-infinitive | your leave not said here | the story | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality story=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | read | present · progressive | I | the story not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic |
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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