The Red Fairy Book, The True History of Little Golden Hood, sentence 31
‘Well, that’s just where I’m going; I shall get there before you, no doubt, with your little bits of legs, and I’ll tell her you’re coming to see her; then she’ll wait for you.’
Who acts: I, you, Wolf · What happens: be, go, get, tell, come, see · To what, where: doubt, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The True History of Little Golden Hood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, Wolf), 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 | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 get | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’s | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ’s | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | advcl |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 where | advmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 ’m | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 ’m | nsubj |
| 9 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 ’s | advcl |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 ’m | xcomp |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 doubt | punct |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 doubt | det |
| 20 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bits | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 bits | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bits | nmod:poss |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bits | amod |
| 25 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 legs | case |
| 27 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bits | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 tell | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 tell | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | nsubj |
| 31 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 tell | aux |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | iobj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 ’re | nsubj |
| 35 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 tell | ccomp |
| 36 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 ’re | xcomp |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 coming | advcl |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 see | obj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 wait | punct |
| 41 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 wait | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 wait | nsubj |
| 43 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 wait | aux |
| 44 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 get | conj |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 you | case |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 wait | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get | shall | I | no doubt | there | before you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future | I | Wolf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | does | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | gerund | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | wait | future | Wolf | then | for you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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