The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 2
And there we must leave him for the present, and see what was happening elsewhere.
Who acts: we · What happens: leave, see, happen · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 leave | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 leave | expl |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 present | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 present | det |
| 9 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 leave | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 see | cc |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 leave | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 happening | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 happening | aux |
| 15 | happening | happen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 see | ccomp |
| 16 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 15 happening | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | must | we | him = he | there | for the present | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme for present=Recipient | ||
| 2 | see | infinitive | we not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | happen | past · progressive | elsewhere property | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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